In 1983, on a plane flying from Paris to London, the famous French actress and singer Jane Birkin accidentally happened to be the chairman of the Hermès house, Jean-Louis Dumas, to whom she complained that she could not find a comfortable and beautiful travel bag for herself. According to legend, Birkin instantly sketched the sketch of the bag right on the plane. A few months later, Dumas sent Birkin home the finished product with a request to give him his name.

The Lady Dior bag was released in 1994 and was originally called Chouchou, which means “darling” in French. The design of the accessory, invented by Gianfranco Ferre, was inspired by the cannage pattern, such rhombuses were quilted   furniture of the Napoleon III era, which adorned the fashion salon of Christian Dior.
In 1995, Princess Diana flew to Paris for the opening of the Paul Cézanne retrospective at the Grand Palais, where the first lady of France, Bernadette Chirac, presented Diana with a Dior bag, which had not yet gone on sale.

In 1983, on a plane flying from Paris to London, the famous French actress and singer Jane Birkin accidentally happened to be the chairman of the Hermès house, Jean-Louis Dumas, to whom she complained that she could not find a comfortable and beautiful travel bag for herself. According to legend, Birkin instantly sketched the sketch of the bag right on the plane. A few months later, Dumas sent Birkin home the finished product with a request to give him his name.