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Purse Gestalt: The Hermes Problem

Jelly Kelly - Not Hermes The popularity of the Birkin and Kelly bags has made French fashion house Hermes even more protective of its top tier brand, as Ginia Bellefante reports in the Times. Not only is the proliferation blatant knock-offs being tracked down and stopped, Hermes is taking action against anything that seems to remotely impede on - even rubber plastic versions that are clearly not Hermes. An interesting look at brand stewardship and maintenance, Gothamist was amused that when Hermes' lawyers give seminars to customs agents to look out for fakes, "the women agents have all definitely heard all about them."

As most know by now, the Kelly bag got its name after Grace Kelly bought one and made it popular. In the 1980s, Jane Birkin mentioned to an Hermes marketing director that the Kelly bag was hard to open (the other story is that she complained to Hermes president Jean-Louis Dumas that no one made a bag for her needs)...et voila, the Birkin bag.

Hermes has its laywers policing for fake Hermes Kelly bags and Hermes Birkin bags on eBay.

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  • JOANNA

    DON T HESITATE TO CONTACT US : WE AR IN MILAN ITALY AND WE HAVE BEST JELLY compare with others!!! blue light, pink, red, kaki, olive green, black, burgundy, yellow, hibiscus, pink, ght green, 2 tones colors, al

  • joanna

    ALLS COLORS YOU WANT : ALLS STYLES YOU WANT, with brackets , 2 tones.............. , buy only the quality and not for 4 month!

  • JOANNA

    YES WE HAVE FACTORY IN MILAN : and alls colors , serenasephara@hotmail.com

  • JOANNA

    DO YOU WANT BEAUTIFULL JELLY'S ?? , SI SIAMO ITALIANA AT MILAN , MILAN FACTORY : YEW WE HAVE JELLY KELLY AUTHENTIC WITH BRACKETS! ; MILAN FACTORY : EMAIL ME AT : serenasephara@hotmail.com

  • Tiffany

    CAROLINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STOP POSTING POSITIVE FEEDBACK FOR YOURSELF AND NEGATIVE AGAINST OTHERS! WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID. SURE YOUR BAGS ARE FINE, LET PEOPLE FIND OUT FOR REAL. I BOUGHT FROM ANOTHER SELLER (TO AVOID YOUR SILLY GAMES),AND THEY HAVE GOOD BAGS TOO.

  • HILLARY

    THANK YOU CAROLINA!!!!!!!!!!! : i love my jelly kellys (colors are beautifull) and bags are HIGHT QUALITY!!! , now i have decided to resell in my town : IF YOU WANTS JELLY KELLY : I HAVE 20 jelly for sell .

  • Amy

    Hi everyone!!! It's Monday 29 Sept 03 and I have just returned from my holiday in Rome. I've brought back quite a few jellys in both Kelly and Birkin styles, sizes and colours. I can even email you my flight details since there seems to be so much distrust going on. Please contact me if you are interested in obtaining a real jelly kelly from Italy. I am not a wholesaler or a retailer, I am just someone who loves these bags and has brought way too many.

  • Judy

    I see a lot of bag comments about www.italy-is.it but I am just a very average person (cant afford the "real" Birkin and wanted something like it in my price range. The bag I recieved from Milan and Sarah is exactly what I ordered and came directly from Italy - not Hong Kong. Had the gold hardware, brackets, good quality rubber, good stitching (I dont know why anyone would think these bags were handstitched as that would make it prohibitively expensive and the idea is that is is affordable for people like me). I did a lot of searching on a lot of web sites and there are many different styles out there but this bag is exactly what I wanted at a price that was far less than most sites are selling them for - go the ebay and see what they want!

    Again, I could not be happier with my bag and would recommend Sarah and Milan and their site to any of my friends.

  • We have the ORIGINAL Jelly Kelly in stock - 12 colors available. Guaranteed Made in Italy or your money back! Remember: always find the best quality for the best price @Italy-is.it.

    WWW.ITALY-IS.IT

  • SHARON

    CAROLINA : THANK YOU : your jelly kelly is WONDERFULL !!!! , i love it. YOU ARE THE BEST

  • carolina

    THANK YOU TO ALLS MY CUSTOMERS ; we sell only the original jelly kelly : rubber is hight quality and fabulous hardware, stitch are all handmade : and this is the BEST , ORIGINAL MODEL WITH THE REAL FORM OF THE BIRKIN WITH BRACKETS!!!. I'm here at carolinaverner@hotmail.com. Thank for alls .

  • KALINA

    HOW MANY STORY HERE!!!!!!!! it is a book!!!! , i just buy and received 2 jelly from Serena : i paid 200 USD and i'm very enjoy : jelly are very pretty : serena is here : serenasephara@hotmail.com : she's vert serious and honest!!

  • PJ

    i just received my brown jelly kelly (for the fall/winter) from italy-is.it and i absolutely love it! they shipped directly from italy to the u.s. i got the medium size (35cm) and it has gold hardware and brackets just like the birkin. and at a great price, too! milan has been SO GREAT about helping me find the bag i wanted. thank you so much for making this such a fun experience.

  • Nancy

    I just bought a "Made in Italy" Jelly in the Birkin style at Cashmere New York on Madison @ 82nd. It is the medium size and I paid $165.00. It is not the Stolman and doesn't have brackets, which I really wanted, but it is good quality at a fair price. They sold out within hours but they will be getting more. Personally, it didn't seem wise to be wiring cash or sending a money order to a stranger in Italy in the hope of them sending a bag. I would think that a "reputable" seller would have a website or at least the ability to accept credit cards. ALso, the prices are terribly inflated, with the exception being WWW.ITALY-IS.IT

  • Michelle

    I am amazed at how all these desperate sellers in Italy are posting positive feedback for themselves using different names! Its sooo obvious...they barely can write english.

  • Racquel

    Anyone know where to buy the Capri City brand Jelly Kelly?

  • KELIA

    I'M VERY ENJOY WITH MY KELLY JELLY BAGS (3) : pink, olive green, orange / I BUY THIS 3 JELLY at : CAROLINAVERNER@HOTMAIL.COM : THESES JELLY ARE BEAUTIFULL , THESES HAVE BRACKETS AND THIS IS THE ORIGINAL MODEL BIRKIN. THIS IS THE BEST!!.

  • LisaM

    Can anyone tell me where to get the original, high quality jelly kelly from Italy with the brackets? I need to get my hands on a few for fall. Thanks!

  • serena

    MICHELLE : I HAVE NOTHING PROBLEMS FOR SELL MY JELLY KELLY : ALLS V I P S PERSONN IN NEW YORK KNOW I HAVE THE ONLY ORIGINAL MODEL FROM STEVE STOLMAN AND THEY PAID THE PRICE / ALLS MY JELLY ARE HANDMADE AND NOT WORKING MACHINE!!!!! : IF YOU SELL BAD QUALITY OR WANTS TO BUY 100/150 USD ONE JELLY IT IS NOT MY PROBLEM / JELLY AT 150 DURING ONLY 6 MONTH AND THEY ARE BAD BAD BAD QUALITY WITH HARDWARE FADE AFTER 2 MONTH : WE HAVE THE ONLY ORIGINAL MODEL : FROM STEVE STOLMAN : V I P BUY ONLY THIS MODEL.

  • Michelle

    Serena:

    The only company that sells Kelly's with 24 karat gold hardware is HERMES...All the rubber Jelly Kellys are machine made NOT hand made...They are all the same...some maybe a little differnt becuase there are many differnt companies making them...But you are OVER CHARGING...There are many people in the US that have imported them from Italy, and are selling them for much cheaper than you...and you say you have factory??????

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