EXCERPT from BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN

...Several months later, I heard through the grapevine that Hermes was opening a shop in Athens in a few weeks. Now possessed of a completely different view of Hermes openings, I immediately picked up the phone and called Paris to try and get a phone number for the Athens shop, and with luck finagle an invitation in the process. No such luck. I racked my brain. Suddenly I remembered Katrin, one of my Birkin clients, who lived in Los Angeles and had a summer home in the Greek islands. I phoned he