Handbag Clinic creates the North’s biggest handbag to celebrate Newcastle store opening

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6ft by 5ft Birkin replica created by Handbag Clinic

To mark the launch, The Handbag Clinic’s restoration experts have worked for two weeks to make a 6ft by 5ft Birkin replica in shocking pink.

Already, the Handbag Clinic team has stopped shoppers in their tracks as they took the bag onto Northumberland Street and anyone who missed it will be able to see the bag at Monument on Saturday December 19.

Handbag Clinic MD Ben Staerck said: “Our staff have such unique skills that we really wanted to show off what they can do.

“Usually, we’re tasked with repairing part of a bag or touching up the colour in a section which has faded or been damaged. But in this case, our craftsmen and women have made an entire handbag, which is definitely big enough to fit all of your Christmas shopping in. You could even sit in it yourself.”

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6ft by 5ft Birkin replica created by Handbag Clinic

The huge Birkin replica has been created using vinyl rather than leather. Handbag Clinic has followed the shape of the classic Birkin as well as creating a clasp and handles faithful to the original design.

The impressive replica follows the same design as the world’s most expensive handbag. The Birkin was first made in 1984 when Hermés chief executive Jean-Louis Duman was seated next to actress Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London, and she happened to say that she couldn’t find a leather weekend bag she liked.

Handbag Clinic carries out repairs and restoration to leather accessories as well as stocking vintage and pre-loved bags from the likes of Chanel, Celine and Louis Vuitton. One of its current finds is a vintage Hermés Kelly bag, which is a fraction of the size of the newly-created Birkin replica.

See the bag at Monument on Saturday December 19.

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