Chiara Ferragni is one of the influencers with the greatest global reach. The Italian model and businesswoman accumulates more than 29 million followers on Instagram, where she usually shares her daily life. Her success on social media is due, in large part, to that sincerity and naturalness that she always demonstrates, in addition to her good choices when it comes to dressing. For many, the Italian influencer is a fashion icon. She has demonstrated this in her last getaway to the snow, where she posed with the most expensive bag in the world.
To start the Christmas season away from the busy life in Milan, the influencer has traveled with her husband Fedez and their two children, Leone and Vittoria, to the snowy mountains of St. Moritz in Switzerland. There they have enjoyed a few days of disconnection. As she herself has commented, for another year she is staying at the Badrutt's Palace Hotel complex. Thanks to the photographs she has taken from there, we have been able to discover which bag she has taken for this trip... and nothing has gone unnoticed, since she carries the most expensive bag in the world.
In the shared images, Chiara wears her fur coat with bright appliqués from Max Mara, which by the way is sold out, and a long gray wool jumpsuit from the brand Laneus, which costs 600 euros. However, what does not go unnoticed is the Hermès Birkin model, specifically, it is the Diamond Birkin Himalaya design. This is a model that the legendary French house created in 2017 for an anonymous client.
The model is special because it is handcrafted with the skin of the exotic Niloticus crocodile, and has a tinted layer of a light, original and shiny color that is reminiscent of the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas. In addition, it has an 18-karat white gold diamond embedded in its closure. On the other hand, it is not displayed in stores around the world nor is it available for purchase, hence why it is such an exclusive piece. The truth is that there are few faces that can boast of having this model. In addition to Chiara, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Jennifer Lopez also have it.
This model was born in the eighties era thanks to the actress after whom it is named, Jane Birkin. The iconic bag came about after a chance meeting on a plane between the actress and Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas. "I was on a plane when a plastic bag containing all my things broke and everything fell out: my agenda, papers, everything," the actress revealed in 2010 to The New York Times Style Magazine.
"Just when I was saying that I would like Hermès to make a bag that would fit all my things, it turned out that the man sitting next to me worked for Hermès: he was Jean-Louis Dumas, the head designer," she continued to explain. "They already had the Kelly bag, named after Grace Kelly, so they started working on the Birkin bag. I went down to the workshop and had it made out of cardboard. We talked about it and I said they should make some changes, like making the pockets bigger. And that's how it was done," he explained in the same interview.
