Jane Birkin, Musician, Actor & Style Icon, Has Died At 76

“I was on an airplane when a plastic bag holding all my things broke and everything fell out – my date book, papers, everything,” she toldin 2010. “Just as I was saying how I wish Hermès would make a bag that could fit all my things, the man sitting next to me happened to work for Hermès – it was Jean-Louis Dumas, the head designer! They already had the Kelly bag, named after Grace Kelly, so he began work on the Birkin bag. I went down to the atelier and he had made it in cardboard.

Birkin carries her namesake Hermès bag while attending the Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2005 show at Paris Fashion Week.Her personal taste was more primitive. Her favourite carryall was a Portuguese wicker basket purchased for under 10 dollars from a London market, in which she would swing her second daughter Charlotte into Parisian nightclubs.

Jane Mallory Birkin was born on 14 December 1946 in London, England, to actress mother Judy Campbell and Royal Navy lieutenant-commander David Birkin. She attended private school in Kensington and later boarding school – which she hated – on the Isle of Wight. She had early ambitions of nursing, “…or to open a clinic like Dr Schweitzer –

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