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Lainage is Hermès's term for wool, and it appears on the Birkin only in limited runway editions. This one dates to the Jean-Paul Gaultier era, shown in the Fall 2006 Paris collection during his tenure as the house's womenswear designer. The body panels are woven in a fine houndstooth check: an ivory ground carrying black, burgundy, navy and green threads, so the pattern reads as a neutral from across a room and resolves into color up close. Togo frames the...