Why is the Hermès Birkin bag worth billions?

General accessories and handbags in particular are one of the things women will never feel enough. Depending on the conditions, they buy things for themselves. But for the elite, they are willing to spend the "mountain of money" just to own the Hermès Birkin bag and not necessarily touch it. What are the special Hermès bags that are so expensive?

Find out about the process of creating a Hermès Birkin money bag for answers.

How expensive are Hermès bags?

Hermès is one of the famous brands from France with bags sold to the market always in the world's most expensive goods. Even if it is a cheap bag, it will cost up to $ 1,000, while the listed price of the world's most expensive Hermès bag is $ 120,000, even higher.

Surely you will be "shocked" to learn that, in June 2015, in an auction in Hong Kong an Hermès Birkin bag was sold for nearly $ 222,000, equivalent to VND 5 billion.

Hermès Birkin bag production process

With the "sky price" amounting to billions of VND, surely Hermès bag is a work of art created by talented artists and high quality, precious and rare materials.

Hermès almost hired artisans from the École Grégoire-Ferrandi school - a school specializing in luxury goods to create these expensive bags.

1. Prepare skin for bag

Bags made from animal skin. First, the piece of leather must be checked on the surface, re-marking errors even if only a mosquito bite, then removing them.

This stitch is very important, the workers need a few hours to complete it.

After checking, a perfect piece of leather will be cut carefully. Depending on the size of the bag, the amount of cut leather will vary. There are bags that only need the skin of an organism but there are also those that may need more. For example, to make a bag one might need 4-5 sets of lizard skin.

2. Stitch the bag

The cut pieces of leather will be stitched together by wooden clamps and done by the craftsmen with high precision. They are all professionals with many years of experience so they are perfect stitches.

Hermès uses a method of "saddle stitch", which allows only one to two stitches to slip without affecting the remaining stitches.

Hermès linen bags must be waterproof, smooth, and covered with wax to prevent degradation.

3. Create brand features

Completing the stage, artisans will hammer into the road just to blur them, then trim, scrub and polish to make the bags look perfectly alike, even if made from different skins .

Polished bag, sanding to perfect.

4. Make bag straps

Artisans take up to 4 hours to complete this stage.

The bag consists of several layers (about 4 - 5 layers), made from the same type of skin as a bag. The straps are created with a standard form before being attached to the bag with perfect accuracy.

5. Attach "hardware" (hardware)

The "hardware" here is the decorative metal pieces on the bag. Hermès does not use screws to fix these parts like traditional bags but has a separate process called "Pearling". Because screws will loosen over time, this is not suitable for their luxury bags.

In order to protect the metal parts from being scratched, they will attach a piece of film to it until the buyer decides to peel it off.

6. Check finished products

Hermès has a separate department to examine the bags. Artisans will thoroughly examine every detail on each bag in accordance with Hermès standards.

If the product reaches the right quality and aesthetics, the inspector will seal the bag. This seal allows Hermès to retrieve the origin of the bag: the year of the factory, which factory, which artist made it.

Before being sold, the bags will be thoroughly examined every detail once they are delivered to Hermès's warehouse in Bobigny (France).

Only perfect bags are packed and shipped to Hermès stores.

Hermès' substandard bags will be destroyed. Hermès does not want any imperfect products out.

With the rigor in production, Hermès bags are always brought to the market with "dripping" speed. Therefore, many people are willing to spend a lot of money still waiting a few years to turn to buy an expensive bag.

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