The Making of an Hermes Birkin bag

While inexpensive brands like Gap and Target’s Go International collections are struggling in our very troubled economy, Parisian luxury house Hermes is still managing to successfully sale its ten thousand dollar handbags.

Taking pity on us non Trust fund babies, they added DIY feature onto its site that allows wishful customers to print out their very own paper Birkin bag

Cruel and unusual indeed. Recently, Fashion File (remember them?) caught up with the set of craftsmen who construct the mere 5 Hermes handbags a week. No wonder the waiting lists are so long.