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Hermès, the fashionable and expensive handbag store, is every luxury traveler's shopping dream. But its biggest fan may be Victoria Beckham who is reported to have spent over £1.5m on more than 100 Hermès Birkin bags,hermes kelly bag. Hopefully some were purchased as gifts? Hermes products attract everyone from Queen Elizabeth of England to actresses to fashion model Kate Moss. Perhaps they even have met up while shopping! Despite the shockingly poor economic downturn around the world, word is out for luxury travelers that Japan, hit by a terrible tsunami, nonetheless has reports of increased demand for Hermes bags, and even shortages. World travelers who love to shop, you are officially on alert!
Hermes reports a huge demand for its Kelly and Birkin handbags in the US and Japan in particular. But chief executive Patrick Thomas has lately warned that the company would barely maintain its supplies for the rest of the world because it was running out of stock. Despite almost 400 new employees they barely keep up with demand. Good news, though, for luxury travelers, they also plani to open 10 new stores next year around the world.
The Kelly bag was named after Grace Kelly, iconic actress and Princess of Monaco. More recently,buy hermes birkin replica, the popular and bigger Birkin came after french actress Jane Birkin and former Hermès boss Jean-Louis Dumas had a chance meeting on a Paris-London flight, when she complained that her Kelly bag was not big enough. Birkin bags start at around $10,000, but can cost up to $100,000. "We haven't yet seen a reduction in the number of people coming into our shops, not even in Japan [following the earthquake and tsunami disaster]",read More, Thomas said. "There are stores where we are a little tight on stocks. This isn't an alert. It's not serious. We are selling at the rate we are producing." So well that they have taken to raising their own crocodiles in Australia, by the way.
Hermès sales in the six months to the end of June jumped 22% -- over 1.3 billion Euros. The results echo similarly strong results from other high-end fashion brands including Burberry. So, if you have a spare $10,000, be sure to pick up a Birkin bag before they run out in your favorite color. You can find a Hermes store here in their online map.
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