What so good about hermes?
What so good about birkin?
Why is Hermes Birkin Bag so expensive? What’s the reason? Why do so many people obsessed with it so much? In the following I will some of the reasons.
The output in Birkin bags a year is very scarce. It is really true that most of the time you cannot buy a one even in the franchise house. Getting a Birkin bag always need three or five years from waiting list to the choice of the leather, color and mental rings. The Hermes Birkin bag may be one of the most expensive accessories in the world. The cost of a Birkin bag covers a wide range, starting at $5300 and up to about $50,000 or more, particularly when the bag is constructed from exotic animal skins. Next, let me give you an analysis. Hermes’ bread and butter have always been the leather goods. As a result, the company added approximately 100 new craftsmen this year to the 2,000 that they already employ in order to fill the orders. According to the company’s chief executive Patrick Thomas, fulfilling the massive demand is an issue, as training new workers properly is a long and expensive process.
“We cannot face demand. We have massive over-demand. We are limited by our ability to train new craftsmen.”
Another factor drives Hermes Birkin price high is leather supply. The first one is about picking leather. The world’s best leather suppliers always leave the first round of power for Hermes to choose the skin. Any defective leather will not be used, so leather use of Heremes among all the good leather just accounts for only ten percent. The second is the kind of the leather. For Hermes the most commonly used skin is cowhide, sheepskin, lizard skin, ostrich skin and crocodile skin. In 2009, there is another skin comes from snake. And all of these are very precious skin. Since Hermes uses a lot of exotic skins in their manufacturing the company is susceptible to the price increases in the leather industry.
Chief Executive Patrick Thomas commented on the situation, acknowledging the fact that skin prices are expected to increase drastically in the following years. However, the company’s strategy will be to spread out their price hikes over a longer period of time, so as to keep all their yearly cost increases to a minimum.
What is conclusive is the fashion house does pay more attention on the quality of their materials than others. Firstly, is about the cowhide. There are various kinds of cow leather in Hermes. They are one in a million and always processed leather by hand finishing so that to make various leather to show its characteristics and create beautiful grain. And for ostrich skin, Hermes only chooses the leather of ostrich butt position, because ostrich pore is very bulky, however, the bottom position of the pore is the most evenly, and it always looks more beautiful. About the most important bag of Hermes we have to mention the crocodile bag. Hermes prides itself on their products, so only the finest belly skin can be used for manufacturing. Hermes has their own crocodile farm, and the small bag always made by the whole crocodile leather, because the alligator crocodile is smaller than the Asian one. Even a bag is made of several crocodile skin, but among the suture it is definitely perfect, it just like the bag is made of one whole crocodile leather. This is very incredible!
The high price of Hermes Birkin bag is also a strategy to keep the company’s core value of prestige luxury. Those high standards are the ones which result in expensive Hermes products, but it is those same standards which ensure that Hermes bags remain available only to a select few. The company has worked hard to build up a prestigious reputation, so now they want to keep the perception that a Hermes Birkin bag is more than just a handbag, it is a status symbol. But you should know is the fashion house cultivates an air of exclusivity breed paranoia, insecurity and suspicion as a byproduct. If the brand is perceived as being for a select few, there’s a heightened sensitivity to the perception that the brand is not for those people even happen to be extremely rich. It demands that its clientele be not only wealthy, but they also must possess a sense of style and elegance.
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