Smart or crazy? These people tore the expensive Hermès Birkin bags to make these slippers

An American art collective has torn four Hermès Birkin bags in order to create what can be considered the most expensive fashional sandal in recent years. The “Birkinstocks”, which have no official connection with the German brand of Birkenstock shoes, have a price between $34,000 and $76,000.

Brooklyn-based band, M SCHF spent $12,500 in new Birkin bags to use as raw materials for the project. That's what they look like. SCHF “Birkinstock” made from a Hermès Birkin Crocodile bag worth $31,000.

Here we go. SCHF “Birkinstock” made from a Hermès Taurillo Clemence bag worth $119,500.

The only act of cutting a Birkin bag scared so many people,” told CNN Lucas Bentel, the artistic director of M SCHF, phone interview. “A Birkin bag is an art object. It is so sacred that you cannot harm it. ”

It seems that MSCHF was fascinated by this fear, which goes beyond respect for fashion and art. In May 2020, the group bought a $30,000 painting of artist Damien Hirsst and then cut and sold him into pieces, making a profit.

Birkin has a unique history so it is not in vain considered the world's most famous bag.

It was designed for the French icon, Jane Birkin. In 1983, Hermès executive director Jean-Louis Dumas was traveling near Jane Birkin from Paris to London. The bag was created after Hermès CEO saw Birkin's documents scattered throughout flight. At that moment, he offered to design a bag specifically for her and drew the idea in a cardboard bag given on the plane for the busy passengers.

Each bag is produced by hand and takes more than 48 hours. The bags are worked in France by artisans who work, paint, and paint everything by hand. Each artisan has a set of personal tools that they can take with them if they retire.

Hermès Birkin has broken the world's most expensive bag record. It was sold at an auction for $380,000 at a event held in Hong Kond in June 2017. Until then, the record was held by another Birkin bag sold for $300,000 in 2016. Created in 2014, the Himalaya type bag was produced from crocodile skin with 205 diamonds and 18 carat gold buttons. Birkin Himalayan received this name from the color of the bag, which comes from the gray to the white pearl, similar to the mountain tones.

Jane Birkin had only 5 of her bag “”. She kept them until they were irreparably damaged. He also decorated them with stickers, spilas, or beads. But Victoria Beckham acts differently. She has more than 100 Birkins.

One Birkin is smarter than stock on the stock market. They have an annual return of about 14.2%, which is higher than average gold and action.