Ireland Baldwin slammed Kim Kardashian for allegedly carrying a rare elephant leather Birkin on her series All’s Fair.
Daniel Wesson — the fashion-focused content creator behind the account Birkin Junky — posted an Instagram Reel on November 21 showing Kardashian, 45, with the gray Hermès handbag in a clip from the Hulu legal drama, in which she plays glamorous divorce attorney Allura Grant. Elsewhere in Wesson’s Reel, there were glimpses of Kardashian posing with the bag during a break in filming.
“This is … Beyond,” a horrified Ireland, 30, wrote in the comments section of the post, per Buzzfeed.
The daughter of exes Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger also shared her reaction via Instagram Stories, writing, “This is so disgusting and shameful. I don’t understand how these people are supported the way they are.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Kardashian for comment.
Ireland was not alone in her criticism, with many detractors arguing that Kardashian had crossed an ethical line.
“Hermès no longer makes elephant leather bags (Thank god) but back in the 80s they had a custom order made by a client of Hermès who brought in [an] elephant hide from a hunting safari,” Wesson claimed in the caption of his Kardashian-centric post. “They rarely pop up but when they do, they take the internet by storm 👜.”
According to PETA, the French luxury label never “officially” sold the elephant purses but did craft a number of them from the elephant skin. The off-market purses have since been spotted on the digital shelves of high-end vintage sellers like 1stDibs.
Kardashian, a Birkin bag collector, recruited stylist Soki Mak to pull together her sleek All’s Fair wardrobe, which consists of vintage pieces from John Galliano, Donna Karan and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Kardashian reached out to Mak via Instagram about collaborating on Allura’s look.
“Honestly, when I first opened the DM from Kim, I thought it was a fake profile,” Mak said in a recent interview with Vogue. “We collaborated on a couple of projects together before the All’s Fair opportunity came around. Everything was moving at such a fast pace that I didn’t really have time to digest the magnitude of the opportunity and what I was about to embark on. It was all very last-minute.”
Mak told the outlet that she and Kardashian “knew the show would be a talking point, regardless of whether it’s to someone’s taste. What we were trying to convey with Allura is that she doesn’t give a s*** what other people think. She knows exactly what she likes and doesn’t follow trends. She has her own style and has fun with it.”
She continued, “The confidence comes with a woman who can wear clothes, not let them wear her. There’s a sense of freedom in that, and I think that you can see that when Allura walks down the hallway in the law office, she exudes confidence. These outfits were obviously exaggerated for TV, especially the Jean Paul Gaultier look with the thong detail. I know a lot of people on set were also confused, but Kim and [producer] Ryan [Murphy] got it straight away.”
