Beautiful star Heart Evanelista is the first Filipino actress to own this luxury masterpiece from the Hermes fashion house.
Hailed as one of the four great beauties of the Philippines, Heart Evangelista is famous for her roles as an actress, host, and singer. She is also the wife of Senator Francis Escudero. The couple has consumed a lot of ink in the country’s media after officially announcing their relationship in 2012.
Heart Evangelista is often compared to the “most beautiful woman in the Philippines” Marian Rivera not only for her beauty but also for her hobby of collecting expensive Hermes bags. Notably, on June 20, 2016, Heart proudly showed off on Instagram a picture of her carrying the Hermes Birkin Matte Himalayan Nilo Crocodile with the caption: “The first Filipino actress to own this ‘𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦’”. Interestingly, just a day before, Marian Rivera also posted a picture of a similar albino crocodile Hermes bag, but it was a Kelly design so it had a lower price.
The Birkin “Matte Himalayan Nilo Crocodile” masterpiece is the most luxurious bag line of the famous fashion house Hermes, made from the skin of albino mutant crocodiles in the Nile River (Egypt). In addition to rare materials, the bag is also valuable because of the extremely elaborate manufacturing process. The crocodile skin must go through a complex dyeing process to create an ivory-brown color, depicting the image of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks. Heart Evangelista’s Birkin is 30 cm in size, without diamonds. Meanwhile, the more luxurious version of this accessory is encrusted with 245 diamonds, with an 18-carat white gold lock. When it was first launched, it was priced at about 190,000 USD (more than 4.2 billion VND) at that time. In June 2016, a diamond-encrusted Matte Himalayan bag was purchased by an anonymous Hong Kong tycoon for $300,000 (about 6.7 billion VND) at Christie’s auction in Hong Kong, setting a record as the most expensive bag ever sold in the world , according to Women’s Wear Daily.
In Hollywood, only two stars have been seen using the Hermes Birkin Matte Himalayan Nilo Crocodile bag: designer Victoria Beckham and reality TV star Kim Kardashian. Of these, Mrs. Beckham’s bag is the extremely rare diamond version – a gift from her husband David Beckham on Christmas 2008. In addition, the Matte Himalayan version without diamonds has also appeared on the hands of a number of other famous people such as the daughter of F1 billionaire Tamara Ecclestone, Taiwanese actress Ngo Boi Tu, Hong Kong actress Quan Chi Lam or Singaporean tycoon Jamie Chua – known as the person who owns the most Hermes bags in the world. Although not everyone can buy it, including celebrities or people from the upper class, the special thing is that up to 7 Vietnamese beauties have appeared with this bag model. Ngoc Trinh once shared with Ngoisao.net that the Birkin Matte Himalayan without diamonds was purchased during her trip to Hawaii last January, with an official price of 65,000 USD (about 1.5 billion VND).
