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Philip Roth

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An auction officer displays the original Birkin bag created by Hermès for Jane Birkin in 1984.

Jane Birkin’s original bag sold for $15m. Is this it-girl inflation?

The stratospheric price paid for the battered old prototype speaks to a fanaticism around the belongings of stylishly influential women that is becoming unseemly.

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