20. Handbags: Enemy of the Pocket.

1. Diana Vreeland, D.V. (1984), ed. George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphil (New York: Da Capo Press, 1997), 89.

2. Annie Groer, “Hermès v. Hermès,” The Washington Post, June 28, 2006, quoting March 2006, Scotland on Sunday interview with Jane Birkin, www.washington-post.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062801276.html.

3. Michael Tonello, Bringing Home the Birkin:

My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag (New York: William Morrow, 2008), 152.