Diamonds are not quite a girl's best friend in the Jennifer Lopez book of style. The title actually belongs to a Birkin bag.
Make that Birkin bags, plural. The boxy leather top-handle tote Hermès released in 1984 to honor French actress Jane Birkin has become J.Lo's stylistic calling card forty years later. Nearly every Jennifer Lopez milestone and news story in the past 365 days has come with a fresh Birkin sighting. She has a graduation Birkin, a house-hunting Birkin, a riding-bikes-in-the-Hamptons-and-feeling-free Birkin. She also has a gym Birkin, the ultimate designer bag flex. Some of these bags are styled in several ways: with jeans and button-ups, with work dresses, with monochromatic sweater sets. The end effect is always the same. Given the bags' sought-after status and the exotic versions she carries, Lopez's collection looks like the definition of opulence.
