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Hermès gifts surrounding a Christmas tree
It's beginning to look a lot like Hermès... and other luxury holiday gifts.
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Photo collage of a dollar sign topping a christmas tree.
The uberrich celebrate the holidays just like the rest of us. But from Hermès bags to hours on a private jet, their gifts are a little different.
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Apple on Tuesday announced it would no longer use leather in its new cases for iPhones, bands for Apples Watches, or other accessories due to the material’s outsized carbon footprint. Instead, Apple said it will transition to relying on “FineWoven,” a micro-twill textile the company claims is made up of 68%…

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Designer wallets made of mushroom leather
MycoWorks makes is Reishi leather with mycelium, which can produce mushrooms.
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Futurama’s new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week’s “How the West Was 1010001,” which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze.

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George Mickum and Gillian Hearst pose at the YoungArts New York Gala at The Metropolitan Museum in 2022
George Mickum, pictured here with his former best friend Gillian Hearst, sold at least six fake Hermès bags to wealthy New Yorkers.
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Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin sketched the first design of the Birkin handbag in 1981.
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Women feet standing in a street holding shopping bags
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crocodile birkin bag
A crocodile Birkin handbag, though not one of the bags that was sold at the Sotheby's auction.