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A love for the Birkin unites us all as demonstrated by the collection of Melania Trump who owns 6 of the classic style valued at over $200K.

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A flaming Birkin bag was recently the topic of much heated discussion after Francesca Eastwood and her photographer boyfriend Tyler Shields torched one of the most coveted bags in the world.  With a price tag of more than $100,000, it was easy to understand the outrage that ensued over the ostentatious act… but it seems that lighting Birkin bags on fire isn’t out of the norm at Hermès, at least according to Mulberry’s Emma Hill who shared this tidbit in her interview with the Telegraph:

Being the daughter of Clint Eastwood affords you certain luxuries—like burning a bag that costs more than what most people earn in a year and calling it art.  Since sex tapes are obviously passé—we haven’t seen the private regions of some celebutot or another in what seems like forever—Francesca Eastwood has gone ahead and changed the fame-whoring game.

In a torturous series of events, the 19-year-old Eastwood burned, bit and chainsaw-ed a red crocodile Hermès Birkin bag while her shock-photographer boyfriend, Tyler Shields, snapped away.  In one image, the red-lipped teen blows on the burning Birkin bag to further fan the flames. In another, she uses a chainsaw to shred the bag to pieces.

It turns out that the public has not been so receptive to Francesca’s interpretation of “art.”  Perhaps it’s the fact that she burned a bag that costs roughly the equivalent to feeding 900 African children for a year, and considering a lot of people die everyday from hunger-related issues, we get why a lot of people are pissed.  What casts doubt on Francesca’s claim that the demise of the Birkin bag happened in the name of art is the fact that the celebrity-spawn used the photo shoot to promote her E! reality T.V. series, Mrs. Eastwood and Company.  Last night Francesca tweeted, “make sure to watch mrs Eastwood and company tonight at 10 pm on E! to find out why we lost Birkin…so sad.”

Foie gras canapés and black truffles galore: It was just another little Hermès cocktail party at the Faubourg store. Out, and I mean way out of the ordinary, though, were the four magnificent haute joallerie pieces created by Pierre Hardy. There were solid gold and diamond Birkin and Kelly bags, both about the size of evening clutch. There was also a gold mesh bag with diamond bit handle and heart-shaped tangle of diamond chaine d’ancre strands. Each piece can be worn on the wrist and or hung on a wall—these are true works of art. Hardy also showed a number of new diamond bangles and cuffs for Hermès —each more classic and covetable than the next.

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