Today, Id like to show Hermes in pop culture to you guys.
TV Shows:In the Sex and the City episode "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda", Samantha Jones drops Lucy Liu's name to move up the waitlist for her Birkin bag.
Wilhemina receives an Hermès scarf from Alexis in the Ugly Betty episode "Icing on the Cake", which she treats with great disdain.
In CW's show Gilmore Girls, Rory receives a Birkin bag as a gift.
The Birkin bag is featured in the Will & Grace episode "Last Ex To Brooklyn" in Season 6.
In Girlfriends, Toni Childs purchases both the Birkin and Kelly bags after discovering that her plastic surgeon husband is in debt.
Film:
The Hermès silk scarf was mentioned in the book The Devil Wears Prada, and also in the 2006 movie based on the book starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. In the book, Miranda Priestly wears white Hermès scarves with nearly every outfit and leaves them everywhere she goes, then demands more of them, believing that they are easily replaceable. In the movie, Miranda is rarely seen wearing a scarf, but her first assistant is seen walking out of the New York store carrying numerous orange Hermès shopping bags and then getting hit by a cab with the scarves flying in the air as a result..A similar stack of signature orange boxes is seen in Miranda's hotel room in Paris.
In the movie The Princess Diaries when Mia (Anne Hathaway) is being taught correct posture by her 'Grandmère' (Julie Andrews), Grandmère uses Hermés scarves to hold Mia's shoulders back against a chair, promping Mia to say that she didn't know it was a custom in Genovia to "imprison one's dinner guests with Hermès (which she pronounces her-mees) scarves." Grandmère corrects her pronunciation.
In the Japanese movie and TV series Densha Otoko, a set of teacups with the Hermès logo is given as a gift that led to the union of the two main characters.
A Kelly Bag plays an important role in the film Le Divorce.
The Hermès silk scarf was mentioned by name as the object used to tie down a murdered victim on bed in the film Basic Instinct.
In Jean Luc Godard's film Weekend, a lady assumes that her Hermès bag has burned from a car accident.