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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Saskia Kemsley

Best bag charms for unique accessorising

Since we lost the late, great Jane Birkin, one particular trend that the original It-girl popularised seems to have taken off among Gen Z-ers. Naturally, it pertains to her namesake Hermès handbag.

The beloved and seemingly impossible-to-purchase Birkin bag was born out of a chance meeting aboard a flight from Paris to London, which saw Jane Birkin and the CEO of Hermès at the time, Jean-Louis Dumas, seated next to one another.

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