VH-1 House of Consignment Star Sues the “Purse Blog”

May 17, 2012 – 4:25 am

House of Consignments

Mama always said, “If you do not have any­thing nice to say, don’t say it all.” Appar­ently those at the Purse Blog never learned this les­son. The site that is well known for dic­tat­ing com­ments and ban­ning inno­cent users, has now been hit with a law­suit. Corri McFad­den, a real­ity TV star and owner of eDrop-Off.com has filed a suit with the U.S. Dis­trict Court in Chicago late last week against PurseBlog.com and Waltham, Mass. , res­i­dent Nancy R. Burke. Burke aka “Been Burned” posted com­ments on the Purse­Blog that accused McFad­den of bid­ding on her own items on eBay with var­i­ous user­names to drive up the price of her items. Burke also advised users of the Purse Blog not to do busi­ness with eDrop-Off. eDrop-Off sells pre-owned designer and lux­ury items and sells them on both their web­site and eBay. McFad­den is also known for her VH1 real­ity show, ‘House of Con­sign­ment.’ McFad­den is seek­ing repay­ment for dam­ages to her busi­ness that the Purse­Blog is respon­si­ble for. Want to read more? Visit The Chicago Tribune’s arti­cle on this topic here.

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Candid Moment: Birkin Ladies

May 17, 2012 – 3:57 am

Candid Ladies

These two famous celebs were spot­ted in the shoes salon at Bergdorf Good­man try­ing on Louboutins. They almost declined our pic until we told them we would not post their pretty lit­tle faces. We love the clas­sic 35cm Her­mès Black Leather Birkin Hand­bag with pal­la­dium hard­ware and the clas­sic 35cm Her­mès Orange Leather Birkin with Gold hard­ware. And what’s that the lady with the Black Birkin is wear­ing? An Her­mès shiny Pelouse croc­o­dile Col­lier de Chien bracelet with Gold hard­ware! How beau­ti­ful. Thank you for shar­ing your love for Her­mès, ladies!

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Featuring Our 1st Giveaway Winner: Erin

May 16, 2012 – 11:06 pm

Erin: CDC Winner

Many of you par­tic­i­pated in our first give away where we rewarded one lucky grand prize win­ner with a brand new Her­mès Bleu Elec­trique Col­lier de Chien Bracelet. That lucky win­ner was Erin. Although we know she is on top of her com­pet­i­tive edge, we have to won­der, just who is she?

Erin is a stay at home mom from the Boston area. She loves to play ten­nis and to play with toy heli­copters with her chil­dren. How did she first hear of Her­mès? Erin fell in love with Her­mès watch­ing Sex in the City. After all, “It’s not a bag. It’s a f—— Birkin.”

Erin has been to Paris and while she was there she vis­ited the flag­ship Her­mès bou­tique and then rested at the fab­u­lous Four Sea­sons Hotel George V Paris. Her favorite sales asso­ciate, Joseph is from the Boston Her­mès store. He is a doll and con­tin­ues to help her love for Her­mès grow.

Her favorite scarf is the black col­or­way of Cav­al­cadour. Erin has two dream Her­mès hand­bags that she aspires to own one day: A 35cm Her­mès Navy Blue Box Leather with Gold Hard­ware for an every­day look and then a 35cm Her­mès Black Togo Leather with a Rose Shock­ing inte­rior for fun.

Once again we would like to con­grat­u­late all of our win­ners! Erin, your brand new CDC looks great on you! We would also like to thank all of you that par­tic­i­pated. What an excit­ing com­pe­ti­tion! Who knows, we might just have another give away in our near future. Be sure to check back fre­quently so that you don’t miss out!

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Hermès Purse Pawning

May 16, 2012 – 4:06 am

Birkin Pawning

Jon Humphreys gave his wife, Jes­sica Humphreys (43), a black Her­mès Birkin as a gift for her birth­day, and it was so spe­cial to her that she would only carry it spar­ingly. Dif­fi­cult times came one month when they were slammed with bills total­ing £7500 pounds Ster­ling (about $12,000 USD) as a result of school fees for their chil­dren and emer­gency rewiring. Jes­sica, an inte­rior dec­o­ra­tor, never dreamed of sell­ing the Her­mès Birkin, but finan­cial hard­ship drove her to con­sider the unthink­able. She didn’t want to lose the bag com­pletely, so she decided to use it as col­lat­eral for a loan after her friend told her about the £2,000 (about $3200 USD) loan she had received upfront for pawn­ing her designer goods. Once real­ity sunk in, Jes­sica explained, “That’s when it dawned on me that our great­est assets, other than the house and cars, were in my wardrobe.”

After much con­sid­er­a­tion, Jes­sica set­tled for a visit to a high-end pawn­bro­ker named Pres­tige Asset Finance in Wey­bridge, Sur­rey U.K. to pawn her Her­mès Birkin, and left with £4,000 (about $6400 USD) that she could now use to pay her bills. After pay­ing the bills, Jes­sica planned to reclaim her Her­mès Birkin by pay­ing the loan within the allot­ted six month time frame. At the time that the bag was pawned she did not tell Jon about it because of the stigma attached to pawn­bro­kers. She also stated, “Jon bought me my Her­mes bag so I think he might be hurt that I was will­ing to part with it. Although I’m sure if I explained that it was being securely stored and I have no inten­tion of not reclaim­ing it, he would under­stand.” Jon was led to believe that the money Jes­sica acquired was from her par­ents, and only Jessica’s friend knows of the pawn­ing, since she is the one who sug­gested it. For­tu­nately, Jes­sica is sure she will be able to pay off the loan and reclaim her Her­mès Birkin.

Per­haps if Jon hadn’t bought the Her­mès Birkin in the first place, this entire cat­a­stro­phe could have been avoided.… how­ever, even though it was more risky and stress­ful, Jes­sica gets to pay the bills and keep the Her­mès Birkin. Was it worth it? Would any of you, dear read­ers, pawn your Her­mès items?

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Hermès: 175 Years of Leather Excellence

May 15, 2012 – 10:17 pm

2012 marks the 175th year of Her­mès leather crafts­man­ship, and to cel­e­brate the mile­stone they have opened an exhi­bi­tion called “Leather For­ever,” at The Royal Acad­emy Gal­leries in Lon­don. The exhi­bi­tion began on May 8th and will con­tinue until the 27th, with free admis­sion for every­one. There are twelve indi­vid­ual exhibits includ­ing one that fea­tures a dis­play of all the vari­eties of Her­mès skins, an entire room that allows the vis­i­tors to see the arti­sans from the Paris work­shops cre­ate the bags, another that houses a giant Kelly bag sculp­ture which dis­plays vari­a­tions of the brand’s two most iconic bags (the Birkin and Kelly), and another room that gives Her­mès fans a view of Her­mès his­tory and their sad­dlery begin­nings. Other notable exhibits include a room filled with cus­tom designs such as a black patent calf­skin wheel­bar­row com­mis­sioned by the Duke of Wind­sor for Wal­lis Simp­son in 1947, as well as a mul­ti­col­ored sad­dle with wings.

The exhibition’s finale is a show­case of four cus­tom made hand­bags that are trib­utes to the four nations of Great Britain. Of the spe­cially designed bags there is a green bag with a sham­rock charm rep­re­sent­ing Ire­land, a plaid bag with a kilt pin for Scot­land, a green bag embell­ished with a winged dragon for Wales, and a brick-colored bag with a guardsman’s bearskin for Eng­land. These bags will be auc­tioned off online by Christie’s from May 16th to May 31st, with the pro­ceeds going to the Royal Acad­emy of Arts. I hope some of our Her­mès Purse Forum read­ers will be able to attend! Let us know if you do in the com­ments sec­tion (with details too, please!)

To view a behind the scenes video of one of Her­mès’ expert crafts­man cre­at­ing the cus­tom made hand­bags for the four nations of Great Britain go here

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Hermès: A Gloomy Look into the Future

May 15, 2012 – 8:44 pm

Hermes: A Gloomy Look into the Future

Her­mès is now announc­ing that its sales may decline as a result of the Euro­pean cur­rency cri­sis, despite its record break­ing year in 2011. The company’s own­ers seem to be real­is­tic in know­ing that not even Her­mès is imper­vi­ous to the eco­nomic down­turn that is hap­pen­ing on a global scale. That has got to be a tough real­ity to con­sider after all of the bumps in the road that the 175-year-old com­pany has endured. Although a hos­tile take-over by LVMH (Louis Vuit­ton Moët Hen­nesy) may have been thwarted, an eco­nomic cri­sis is some­thing that not even beau­ti­ful designs or a love for crafts­man­ship can pre­vent. Were the last two record-breaking sales years for Her­mès the top of a roller coaster ride that was bound to plum­met to the bot­tom? Well, that remains to be seen. Mean­while, as always, Her­mès Purse Forum wishes the com­pany the very best of luck.

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Reese: The Case of Babies and Hermès Bags

May 15, 2012 – 4:21 am

Reese Witherspoon

Reese With­er­spoon has been sport­ing a baby bump and an Her­mès Gar­den Party bag these days, and both are def­i­nitely doing favors for the actress. Most of the time when we see a celeb wear­ing the same bag more than once in a short time frame it’s bound to be an Her­mès Birkin, so it’s refresh­ing to see an Her­mès Gar­den Party bag. That’s not the only unusual thing about these pho­tos. She’s smil­ing in almost every pic­ture we saw of her, which speaks vol­umes con­sid­er­ing most celebs look a bit melan­choly in paparazzi shots (and I don’t blame them). Clearly, after review­ing these pho­tos, all evi­dence sug­gests that Her­mès and preg­nancy has made Reese “legally” happy.

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Our Favorite Hermès Color of the Week: Etain

May 14, 2012 – 9:54 pm

Our Favorite Hermès Color of the Week: Etain

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Hermes Catches the Thieves

May 11, 2012 – 4:28 am

No Fakes

Her­mes may have many bat­tles to fight, but at least they have won a major bat­tle against 34 web­sites that sold knock­off (aka coun­ter­feit) Her­mes goods. Sites such as HeremesBagsOutlet.org and HermesBirkinbags.org had ignored pre­vi­ous restrain­ing orders given by U.S. Dis­trict Court Judge, Denise Cote, demand­ing that they stop sell­ing Her­mes repli­cas. In addi­tion to the defen­dants’ dis­obe­di­ence, no rep­re­sen­ta­tive for any of the sites were present to defend them­selves in court. (Prob­a­bly because they knew they didn’t have a leg to stand on.) There were at least 9 dif­fer­ent types of Her­mes coun­ter­feits sold, includ­ing the Birkin and Kelly bags. Cote awarded Her­mes with $100 mil­lion in dam­ages plus a require­ment that Google, Bing, and Yahoo ceases to pro­vide search results link­ing the pub­lic to these fraud­u­lent web­sites. It may seem hope­less that Her­mes will see any of this awarded money, but the scam­ster sites’ reg­is­tered Pay­pal accounts will be drawn upon to award Her­mes with their right­ful money. It’s always sweet when jus­tice is served. Way to go, Hermes!

We could not be more thrilled about this! There has been a lot of news about fake Birkin bags lately, from Lady Gaga endors­ing fake Her­mès Birkins in Hong Kong as a joke, only to have the police ques­tion her about her state­ment, to this won­der­ful vic­tory for Her­mès. We at the Her­mès Purse Forum would like to remind you that own­ing such a bag is ille­gal and fake hand­bags are never in fashion.

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Kim Kardashian, Kaught in a Klutch

May 9, 2012 – 12:56 am

Kim and Kanye

I finally saw Kim Kar­dashian car­ry­ing an Her­mes bag that WASN’T a Birkin. Sur­pris­ing, isn’t it? Instead of opt­ing for the usual cov­eted bag, Kimmy was spot­ted with a black Kelly Medor clutch to con­trast her white blazer. Isn’t it fab­u­lous? I am actu­ally sur­prised she owns a non-Birkin hand­bag, con­sid­er­ing how many Birkins she has bought. Maybe the new blos­som­ing romance with Kanye made the real­ity star want to be a lit­tle more adven­tur­ous… who knows? Love def­i­nitely changes peo­ple and influ­ences them. I would like to see more vari­ety in the Her­mes bags on Kim. I loved see­ing the clutch so much that I almost missed the fact that Kanye’s pants are down…

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