(CNN) — The original Hermès Birkin bag, which acted as the blueprint for what would become one of the most desirable celebrity status symbols in the world, will go under the hammer in Paris ...

“He said, ‘Well, draw it for me,’ and so I drew it on one of those sick bags – the vomit bags – in the airplane,” Birkin said. The original Birkin differs from subsequent versions in ...

The duo reviewed a few sketches, which Birkin said they had scribbled on an airline vomit bag, and in 1984, the Birkin bag arrived. But the original handbag she popularized was no luxury item.

But when he got back, I was running the bath and trying to console my daughter while attempting to strip her bed without getting vomit everywhere. When he got home and saw that the bath was half ...