The Bag Story: Birkin was famous for her bohemian straw baskets-until her belongings spilled to the floor when she opened the overhead compartment in an airplane. Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas, a fellow passenger, kindly offered to create a more practical leather bag. Victoria Beckham has a collection of them reportedly worth $2 million. But the muse herself owns only one: "They're bloody heavy!" Birkin once told a reporter.
Since Hermès renamed its Kelly bag after Princess Grace in 1956, only a handful of other women have bagged one of fashion's highest honors: immortality in leather. (Or crocodile.)
Charles McDonald and Nate Tice's latest mock draft has five quarterbacks off the board in the top 13, a big-time weapon for Aaron Rodgers and some steals in the second half of the first round.
One common thread runs between Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun's departure and the death knell for GE next week: Jack Welch. Veteran financial journalist Allan Sloan notes that of the CEOs Welch mentored, four succeeded while 13 failed.