The Walmart Birkin bag has been making the rounds on the internet, but then so has Hermès artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas’s comment that the maison’s wares are “not expensive” but “costly”—in terms of both materials and savoir faire. There’s nothing like authenticity. Here, a roundup of real-deal Hermès Birkin moments, from a brown ostrich leather style to Snehal and Jyoti Babani’s colorful carriers.
