$53,000.00
Condition: 1 / Used, Never Worn
Color: Sunrise Rainbow
Leather: Epsom
Construction: Sellier
Hardware: Palladium
Dimensions: 35 x 25 x 18 cm | 13.8″ x 9.8″ x 7.1″
Handle Drop: 12 cm | 4.7″
Includes: Full Set (Box, Dust Bag, Shoulder Strap, Pochette, Original Store Receipt.)
The Rainbow Birkin is among the most technically demanding productions in the Hermès special order program. The colorway requires the bag to be constructed from multiple panels of Epsom leather, each in a distinct color, joined and stitched in sequence to produce a graduated spectrum across the body of the bag. The Sunrise variant works through the warm register: coral, orange, rose, yellow, and red tones arranged in a banded progression that reads as a continuous field rather than a series of separate colors. The execution depends on precise color selection and panel alignment at the construction stage, as the gradient is built from material rather than dye applied after the fact.
Epsom was the correct choice for the program. The leather’s tight, cross-hatched grain holds color with high saturation and resists the softening of edges that a smoother leather would allow. Each color panel reads cleanly against the next, and the rigidity of the material supports the sellier construction without requiring additional lining to hold its shape. The Birkin 35 sellier format, with its exposed saddle stitching and flat base, gives the full color sequence room to develop across a larger panel surface than the 25 or 30 would allow.
This example has been taken out of the box for photographs but unworn. Full set included and plastic protection is present.