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Has It Gotten Too Hard to Buy a Birkin or Kelly?
A lawsuit against Hermes and a scandal around Dior pricing show how the threat to luxury isn’t just economic.
Catch me if you can.
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“My baby want a Birkin, she’s been tellin’ me all night long,” sings Shaboozey in his chart-topping single “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
The lady in the lyrics isn’t the only one. The iconic handbag has become so desirable — and hard to buy — that two shoppers in California have alleged that its maker, Hermes International SCA, is breaking US antitrust law.