![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I bring a Birkin to an event, women go crazy over it. It's this magical, unobtainable piece of luxury that women dream of owning. "Most people have never seen the bags in person. In it, he details his years spent chasing down Birkins all over the world for wealthy clients. "Mystical is a good word to describe them," says Tonello, a Massachusetts native whose new book, "Bringing Home the Birkin," hits bookstores Tuesday. Designed by breathy French singer Jane Birkin and Hermès president Jean-Louis Dumas-Hermès in the mid-1980s, the oversize purse has enjoyed a 20-plus-year run as an almost unobtainable cult fashion phenomenon. The bag is often seen adorning the arm of celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Holmes, Sofia Coppola, and Nicole Richie. The pricey status bag known as the Birkin starts at $7,500 and is sold in limited numbers, much to the chagrin of wealthy style mavens and their over-extended sisters around the world. For nearly 10 years he supplied some of the world's wealthiest women with one of the most in-demand and expensive purses on the planet: the Hermès Birkin bag. But Michael Tonello once enjoyed a power that few in the world could match. The animated and charming man who gingerly picks at his club sandwich at the Taj Boston appears to be an ordinary - albeit a spectacularly attired - diner. ![]()
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