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Hermès
Hermès was founded in 1837 in Paris by Thierry Hermès, initially as a harness and saddle workshop serving European carriage trade, before the company later expanded into leather goods and handbags, retaining strong equestrian design influences throughout its later product lines. The company's Birkin bag, created in 1984 after a chance airplane meeting between Hermès executive Jean-Louis Dumas and actress Jane Birkin, became one of the most exclusive and highest-resale-value handbags in the world, with Hermès deliberately limiting production and requiring established purchase history before customers can buy one. Hermès has remained substantially family-controlled since its founding, resisting a notable hostile takeover attempt by LVMH in the early 2010s, and the company's continued family ownership structure is frequently cited within the luxury industry as central to its sustained ultra-premium brand positioning. Hermès's combination of the Birkin bag's deliberately scarce, waitlist-driven exclusivity and its sustained family ownership resisting LVMH's takeover attempt has made it one of the most prestigious luxury handbag brands in the world.
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Burberry
Burberry was founded in 1856 in Basingstoke, England by Thomas Burberry, who invented gabardine, a tightly woven, water-resistant fabric, in 1879, a genuine textile innovation that became foundational to the brand's identity in outerwear before later expanding into handbags and broader luxury accessories. The company's distinctive tartan check pattern, introduced as a coat lining in the 1920s, became one of the most recognized and, at times, most heavily counterfeited patterns in the luxury fashion industry, leading Burberry to significantly scale back the pattern's visibility during the mid-2000s to distance the brand from its association with counterfeit goods. Burberry's handbag line grew significantly under a series of high-profile creative directors, and the brand's British heritage, combined with its historic supply of trench coats to British military officers during World War I, gave Burberry's accessories a distinctly British luxury heritage positioning compared to its primarily French and Italian competitors. Burberry's combination of its foundational gabardine fabric invention and its historic British military heritage has made it one of the most distinctively positioned luxury handbag and accessories brands in the industry.
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