Hermès sued over claims it refused to sell shoppers Birkin bags

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The lawsuit calls the Birkin handbags an 'icon of fashion' - with some fetching well over $10,000 (£7,638).

Hermès has been sued over claims it unlawfully allows only customers with 'sufficient purchase history' with the company to buy its famous Birkin bags. Two residents in California allege Hermès is violating antitrust laws by 'tying' the sale of one item to the purchase of another, according to the proposed federal class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in San Francisco.

'Icon of fashion' The lawsuit calls the Birkin handbags an 'icon of fashion'. They are named after the singer and actress Jane Birkin, who died in July aged 76. In 1981, Birkin was reportedly sat next to Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight from Paris to London, according to L'Officiel magazine. Following a conversation between the two about how difficult it was to find a bag that could fulfil Birkin's needs as a mother-of-two, the Birkin bag was born.

 

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