Decryption: Why Is Hermes Kelly Handbag So Expensive?

Why do Americans admire so much? Why do people in fashion all over the world feel the same way? Leather and fur It has always been luxurious and gorgeous, but it appears to be on the princess Grace. It appears to be comfortable and hot, with no low profile and no arrogance. The gloves, whether in Hollywood or in Monaco, have always been the signature of Grace Kelly; as for the king, married to foreign countries. royal family When the Queen / princess is more than one American, which one compares to Grace Kelly? elegance The atmosphere is beautiful and extraordinary?

So, what about that handbag? What's the matter with it?

Hermes turns luxuriant

That bag is called Kelly bag. The selling price now ranges from $ten thousand leather to crocodile skin tens of thousands of dollars. In addition to the extremely expensive price, you must add enough patience: if the leather, color or size of the Kelly bag you want is not available from stock, it will take 6 months to several years from you to the order.

Kelly bags are produced by HERM S, a Paris harness and leather goods store. Its prototype is a saddle bag, which was born in 1892. By the turn of the last century, in 1899, Emile, the third generation leader of HERM S family harness business, met his lifelong companion, Julie. Julie's father, who runs timber business in the overseas colony of France, is also a customer of HERM S's harness. This family's foreign Anecdotes and broad vision bring great excitement and stimulation to HERM's S's third generation boss. Julie warmly recommended to her father the saddle bag of HERM S, and he pioneered the saddle bag as a traveling bag. At that time, no one had expected that Julie accidentally made the saddle bag a lady's handbag, leaving HERM S S the most valuable commercial resource in women's handbag, the later Kelly bag.

From Queen of Hollywood to Princess of Monaco

In the days of personal movie career, with the title of Oscar's movie queen (1955 village girl) and the Grace Kelly, she waved to her motherland, the Hollywood, her love for her hundreds of millions of fans, to her family and friends in her hometown of Philadelphia. Monaco, far away from the Mediterranean coast and the shining city state of Monaco, became the wife of Prince Renier of Monaco. Since then, her official title is princess Grace, the queen of Monaco. This super fairy tale of the world's top beauty + Oscar queen and princess has been warmly reported by the media, from engagement to wedding to every move after marriage. It has fascinated fans, readers and audiences.

Unique and valuable

HERM S has noticed that during the engagement process in 1955, Grace Kelly carried a bag of HERM S S on most occasions. So, in 1956, HERM S contacted the royal family of Monaco, and won the consent of Princess Grace to rename the classic HERM S bag with her maiden name Kelly. Although HERM S was prepared for this, when the sister weekly life magazine of the Times published Princess Grace as the cover of a magazine in 1956, she wrapped up the black HERM S S handbag --Kelly bag and became a fashion star. Since then, HERM S has truly enjoyed international fame and has really gone all over the world.

Advanced handbag

The world's leather brand name is not only HERM, S, but why does Kelly, a wealthy family of the United States, have a special liking for it? Originally, HERM S has its own unique saddle stitch step: one line and two needles, passing through the same hole back and forth, sewing like bundles. This is a way of preventing the saddle from loosening and ensuring the safety of riders. Then, the seams of leather are fixed with beeswax, and soft and soft. A modern man uses HERM S's handbag, but enjoys the exquisite blessing of classical knight.

Not only that, but compared with other famous brands known to the streets as well as other famous streets, HERM S also has a "self standing": when other brands sell their brands to other companies, authorize others to produce their own nominally products, or transfer the production base to the countries with low labor costs to obtain a great profit in the famous brand industry, HERM S still insists on producing its own products in its own suburban workshops in Paris. The reason why Kelly bags become Kelly bags is not so simple as the famous brand celebrity effect.

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Kelly bag -- "Rolls-Royce" in the bag

HERM S is not only a handbag. It is the hand of a woman who puts her sense of security into the bag and searches for her needs from the bag. The handbag protected her private world, just like princess Grace used a big black Kelly bag to protect her body lines during pregnancy. HERM S is like a jewelry box, a space for personal dreams.

When I first learned that people in fashion agreed to push Kelly bags into Rolls-Royce bags, there was no more appropriate analogy. I remember that when I was in University in Guangzhou, one year, Queen Elizabeth S visited China. The last stop was Guangzhou, where she stayed at the White Swan Inn Hotel. The White Swan moves out to welcome the Rolls-Royce luxury car. The media said that it was the first Rolls-Royce car and the first Rolls-Royce team in mainland China. What impressed me most about the Queen's visit to China was the White Swan's Rolls-Royce fleet, and the Queen's private cruise ship "Britannia" when leaving Guangzhou.

Many years later, I saw the biographical film of Princess Grace in the United States. She saw her family members and friends who attended the wedding ceremony in April 1956 and went to Monaco on the US cruise ship's "constitution" to go to her new life. The Kelly bag is to commemorate a young American woman with noble qualities and pure beauty. She started her new voyage at that time: the blue sea, her marriage, her Princess career, her dream, her future.

Kelly bags of fashion people in different countries

Let's see how the representatives of fashion people use Kelly bags:

Needless to say, the surname Kelly of Princess Grace has made Hermes a dream of fashion people all over the world. From pop star Madonna, to countless celebrities and Hollywood stars, to countless other guests, they have demonstrated to the world how they use Kelly bags.

The last French Minister of finance, and now Christine Lagarde, the president of the International Monetary Fund, is the French representative of Kelly bags, and is a low-key and powerful professional woman representative.

Italy, Donatella Versace, inherits the Gianni Versace fashion kingdom. Like VERSACE, this brand is highly publicized. Versace sister often uses a fresh green crocodile skin Hermes bag. Bright green can only be accompanied by very few clothes, and is not the basic color. This sends a message in a high profile: the bag carrying man owns more than one Hermes bag. People always enter the world of Hermes by starting from a basic color that is easy to match the clothes and occasions.

There is an English Hermes customer. He is one of the most famous fashion photographers in the twentieth Century, Tony Armstrong Jones. In 1960 he married queen's sister princess Margaret and was awarded the Queen's Snowdon. Another British photographer, Cecil Beaton, ridiculed Snowdon as "the Cinderella of our age".

"The Cinderella of our age", Lord Snowdon, saw the Royal wealth and the beauty of the fashion world. His Hermes is a Kelly travel bag, leather material is unprecedented - saddle leather. The material used for saddle is to be scraped and hammered. Lord Snowdon has a special eye for saddle leather. This is exclusive, exclusive original in the original.

Define elegance gracefully

But my favorite is the Grace Kelly Kelly bag that I used. In the fall of 2007, Prince Albert, the son of Princess Grace, who held the throne shortly, held a grand exhibition to commemorate the death of his mother by 25th anniversary. We went to Monaco to see this great and comprehensive exhibition: from Philadelphia to Hollywood, from Princess Monaco to charity, from mother to first lady, from noble ladies to style leaders, covering Grace Kelly's beautiful and intelligent life.

In the personal dress style exhibition hall, a large number of elegant Sundays and gorgeous evening wear, jewelry, headwear gloves, of course, there are many Kelly bags! These are the real products she used, with traces of time. And today's celebrities sell advertising like a bow with two Kelly bags. Even the vulgar celebrities can not add anything if they are covered with Kelly bags. And Grace Kelly, she will always live in the eyes of the world's fashion people, like a style dictionary, calmly and leisurely, define the noble and elegant.