Found it amusing that it was inspired by a humble straw basket and designed to be functional for working women but now it’s nothing except a status symbol.

“Not even Kim Kardashian has this”. This is the standard we’ve set for ourselves now... Lol

"Albino alligators are rare" Hermes: Ohh. Interesting, let's turn them into a bag.

So if the counterfeits are made by actual Hermes employees, are they actually counterfeit?

So the real reason it's so expensive...because they want it to be.

This bag was designed to be functional for the working women. It's crazy how now it's only to show how rich you are. Somewhere along the process the bag has failed it's true purpose.

I just love how they(basically stangers) just sat down together in a plane and just made bag designs. That's kind of a wholesome bag origin 😅

I like the guy who bought the 500k bag, he is honest about chasing clout and he actually uses the bag as what it is for... a bag. Praises for this guy!

Spot an albino crocodile Scientists: it's rare Hermes : let's make a bag out of it

The fact that you have to be "invited" to buy a bag and you don't even have a choice as to what kind it is, despite putting down a mortgage for it, for some reason, annoyed me to the highest degree.

I once worked in a store where these bags were sold. I saw a lady being sold one and thought to myself “this is almost sinful”, but the more you sell the more money you make. It’s a beautiful bag but definitely wasn’t worth 40,000

Designer: Lets make a profit sell it for 50k Resellers: Why not add another zero, the losers will pay

This video convinced me to buy a straw basket.

The guy that paid $500k for his Birkin was so pretentious it made me want to cry

This video got me hooked, and now I’m determined to become a billionaire in just two years! 💪💰

Short answer: the reason they’re so expensive is because Hermes is brilliant at creating fake exclusivity. They’re value would plummet immediately if someone just stole a bunch of them and gave them away on the street. Anybody in the mood for a heist?

Thieves be like *empty out your purse and gimmie just that*

A man bought a lady's bag, just so that people can talk about him. That's a whole new level of attention seeking

I just love how Jane Birkin used hers. She wasn’t afraid to use it and she said it on many occasions that bags should be used and loved, otherwise why buy them?

Just spent 8 min to see the reason why its so expensive.. still waiting.

Imagine me buying a 500,000 purse just to put my 2 Dollar tampons and half bitten cookie in there.

Is it just me or are these "luxury" bags not exactly aesthetically pleasing? They look like ordinary bags to me. Nothing exceptional.

I bought a pair of 9 hole back in ‘93 for $75. They were the most comfortable shoes I ever owned (after break-in period of course) and I wore them for 15 years. My 17 year old niece just got some and honestly they seemed the same to me. Glad to see them popular again. Made me consider getting another pair, even though I have no need for them, because of those fond memories.

The bag design actually existed long before Birkin, it was called the 'haute de courroi''. It was designed to hold riding boots. In order to make the crocodile one you must first go to the crocodile farm, it's an interesting place to visit, concrete pits are everywhere and usually way too small to hold the animals who fester in green dirty water all day in the sun but don't worry they are given food to keep them growing. The next step is quite difficult, you have to drug the animal to make it more compliant then holding it down you push it's head down the edge of the table and shove an iron bar through a slit in the back of it's neck and all the way down it's spine. This holds the pattern of it's scales in place which is very important as they figure largely in the finished design of the bags. The crocodiles have to be alive when this happens but they die in an hour or so and of course their mouths are bound so they don't make any annoying sounds. Hundreds of animals are skinned each day as the demand is as great as the control of the sites are innexistant. In the end you have a lovely holdall for your ipads, iphone, lipstick, gun, vibrator or whatever you decide to use it for. The crocodile ones are usually sitting on a shelf all day waiting to earn their living by simply existing. I wonder what they do with the teeth ?

So he drops $500K for a bag just to get attention 🤦‍♀️😂

I first heard of birkin bags because of jeffree star and it amazes me how he always talks about "cruelty free make up" and things like that and then he goes ahead and buys these bags, made from RARE animals.

Great journalism on this story. 👏👏👏👍

killing animals, using their skin then calling it pieces of art work. nice

The bag were meant to be functional but the irony now is that it's being locked away in a vault. How absurd is that?

The 500K bag costs more than Yale tuition for four years.

Absolutely love the coat you are wearing! and the *yutulux* bag !

I actually lose respect for people who feel the urge to buy overpriced name brand items just to show off and make themselves feel better about themselves, because they cannot feel complete without them. To me it is a kind of insecure shallowness.

these designers are making clowns out of so many people.

I bought a bag off amazon for $10 dollars. Has a zipper on top so nothing falls out. 🤷‍♀️

I love the creator behind this video. A job well explained

Incredible products of incredible brand... Who would not love to have it.. wonderful and lovely creations.....

I'd rather the alligator was still alive

I admire the man who managed to convince the rich idiots to buy this bag...

The guy bought it for content and honest about it. I respect that.

Thanks for sharing 🌻

Jane Birkin herself don't want anything to do with Hermès anymore coz it's made of animal leather

Jane Birkin doesn’t even use the birkin bag anymore.

My go to bag is a Stone & Co. bag by Kohl's in leather of course, it has been my favorite for decades at a fraction of the cost of a Berkin bag.

Berkin bags are really spacious, good looking and luxury bag. I liked it the most

Jane Birkin herself said that the bag is overpriced now and has become a ridiculous status symbol. She was on a Japanese TV show a couple of years and they presented her with a Birkin bag. She said something like "This bag is meant to be used, and worn out and live. You stuff all your things in there. This bag is too new , too stiff ! Let me show you!" She then stuffed some magazines and things in it, put it on the floor and started stomping it and jumping on it. The TV hosts were screaming ! She then handed them the bag back "There ! you see! It's solid! It won't break! It's supposed to be used and live and be mistreated! It's not just a pretty thing!" All this from the woman who inspired the bag.

literally take off the brand name & these look like bags you’d find at your local thrift stores .

Love this video!

The variety of textures in the *yutulux* pack is impressive. From smooth leather to textured suede, there's something for everyone.

They killed a rare animal to make this for psycho people? This should be illegal

This proves how incredibly ridiculous we are as a species

Good to know information ❤

I'm going to guess that those employees were making much more off of counterfeiting than Hermès was willing to pay them.

Funny fact Jane Birkin herself wants her name removed from this product and also claims to have wrist problems because it's too heavy

Even if I was rich, I wouldn't waste my money on this

i'd give more to see an albino croc alive.

So kill a rare crocodile to make a bag .... these people have genuinely lost it

They look like old surgical bags doctors used to carry🤷🏼‍♀️

I wouldn't be surprised to see a version of it being sold outside the Herald Square station in NYC XD

I've literally never even heard of this bag until now . Funny how poor people things inspire rich people.. it's so stupid lol

That Dave guy is seriously so embarrassing, he bought the bag literally for attention

On God rich people are weird as hell.

One thing I have to hand to Hermes they are the true masters of marketing

🙂 *the right bag is the bag you "love" due to own acceptable personal reasons and purpose... not by its brand nor price... even its luxury or not, overpriced or a discounted price - as long as you love it...* ❤

*Paris Hilton's chihuahua gonna poop in it*

The only thing I could afford in this video was the straw basket.

These bags have an amazing resale value so I wouldn't mind one.i read someone resold their bag and got double of what they paid.

Having this is the dream 😍

It's just a handbag! In itself it has no value. Only people create it's value just like diamonds.

Hermes is laughing all the way to the bank. I wonder what their actual COST is on one of this 100K bags.

Rip Jane Birkin, a name forever iconic

I have 2 Birkins. Bought them about 25 years ago in Paris. They've held their value.

*Thief steals bag _$500,000 gone_

Things are expensive because people want it to be, it’s not about quality, hard work or design

Nice timepiece :-D

Hermes marketing moves were genius. The buyers are just obtuse, insecure showoffs. Lol

They say that workers train for years to start making a Hermès bag, yet the people making counterfeited bags are hard to distinguish from the original just shows that the price mainly comes from the material and brand.

The potato queen in black with neckercheif is precious. My fav is the super feminine pose with

It was interesting to see.

Jeffree Star: my makeup is vegan Also Jeffree: look at all my animal skin bags

I used to design shoes for a luxury brand that were made by hand in Milan. I understand the manufacturing costs. I can confidently say that no bag is worth this kind of money. It is a huge scam that Hermes controls even more by keeping the bags "scarce" and only inviting you to have the privilege to buy their overpriced bags.

Really love this brand

I went to the Salvation Army and got three purses for fifteen dollars. Good condition, leather, zippers and in the three sizes. Say what you want, you have to know how to shop. I also bought to patent leather purses they used to carry in the 60's and 70's. Those are rare. I just need to carry everything to get me to point A to point B along with my mace and other protecting things......

If you spend $500k on a purse, what are you doing

This video could’ve basically been shortened to “Hermes artificially reduces the supply of the bags to make people pay insane prices for them”

so what thing will you store your thing holder in? what is it about the people involved and their associations that make it so valuable? a lot of people could set out to make a good feeling bag by hand and pull it off.

That straw basket looked so much cuter tbh

I'd pay a $10,000 premium to keep the animals alive.

The tip for spotting a fake bag that the guy gave: "the leather must feel luxurious" WTF does that mean!

Finally got my Hermes Birkin bag. It's definitely not 500k though 😂 I got the cheapest one which was pretty expensive lol. I love it though, every stitch, detailing. I love it ❤

“Hermes has created something inaccessible, and thus, highly exclusive”…At least they’re honest. It’s amazing how false scarcity can trick people into buying a bag at ridiculous prices, that they don’t even get to pick the color of. There’s nothing particularly special about these besides the fact that the company makes them hard to get. The minute I heard the phrase “if you’re lucky enough to be offered one…” I was like NOPE. You’re not doing anyone a favor overcharging them for a purse. That attitude is MAD classist and is not gonna age well. It’s a lot like diamonds-They’re not hard to find, they’re actually very common, companies just don’t mine that many to try to keep the price up. There’s a reason a lot of younger people don’t buy diamonds-I honestly feel like they are kind of tacky a lot of the time. These are beautiful bags, but I’d honestly be embarrassed to be seen with one of these right now. 10% of the population of the United States is facing eviction because of money troubles, and you have a bag that could pay their rent for years, that you don’t even carry? Yeah, no.

People are ridiculous. Honestly...I have more respect for someone who uses a reusable grocery bag as a 'purse'.

If the fakes are getting so good you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?

this is why i HATE hermes birkin bags so much. cause 1) i absolutely cannot accept or fathom how ridiculously expensive it is, and how it's so annoyingly an over inflated status symbol, and 2) it is exactly how i like most of my bags to be shape-wise and function-wise, so begrudgingly i have to admit to myself that if i was EVER in the financial position to own one - i would do so so quickly and without question. i bloody hate that about it and about me.

Whether *luxdups* or anything else, I firmly believe that only a practitioner can detect a difference in the appearance or metal content of a sack.

Wait so you’re telling me that Jeffery Star has like a billion dollars worth of diaper bags?

Everything is worth only how much a person is willing to pay for it!

I’m fascinated

Yes, it is be nice if I get this bag ☺️✨

Sad to know that animals suffer at the expense of luxury.

imagine being proud of killing a rare animal to make a """"status symbol"""