Hermès · Tier 1
Variant
By Arielle · Catalogued July 2026
Available now · The Luxury Closet$6,999 →The Hermès Kelly To Go is a designer bag.
Best listed right now: $4,995 on Fashionphile, around the typical price (median $6,595).
Prices have been trending up over the tracked window.
Discontinued: no longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.
Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal. As of 2026-07-09.
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Create accountA 1930s bag for carrying saddles became the first It bag the day a princess used it to hide a pregnancy.
Origin
The Kelly began in the 1930s when Hermès shrank a bag built to hold saddles into a structured handbag for women, the Sac à dépêches, launched in 1935. Simple, solid and roomy, it was made to carry a lot in a refined shape.
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Culture
Grace Kelly fell for the bag while filming To Catch a Thief in 1954. In 1956, newly the Princess of Monaco, she was photographed using it to shield her pregnant belly from the cameras. Sales jumped overnight and the bag became the first true luxury It bag.
Good to know
Everyone called it the Kelly long before Hermès did. The house only changed the name from Sac à dépêches to Kelly officially in 1977, more than twenty years after that famous photo.
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By the numbers
Across 85 recorded resale listings, the Kelly To Go sits around $6,595. This is our estimate from current data, not an appraisal, as of 2026-07-09.
Designers and muses.
Grace Kelly
The princess who named it
The Hollywood star turned Princess of Monaco whose photographs made the bag a global phenomenon.
Robert Dumas
Hermès designer
Reworked an equestrian bag into the structured Sac à dépêches that would become the Kelly.
Articles on the Kelly To Go and Hermès from our verified experts.
Hermès uses no serial number, so the blind stamp, the craftsman's mark, and the hand saddle-stitch carry the read. The era cutoffs and hardware tells that matter on a Birkin or Kelly, and why no marker is proof.
By Arielle · Birkin
The French names and official codes behind Hermès shades, cross-checked and honestly flagged where a code is missing. Durable vocabulary, not a live availability feed.
By Arielle · July 8, 2026 · Birkin
On resale the two cost almost the same size-for-size, so the real choice is shape and how you carry it. What each lists for now, and the steep small-size premium on both.
By Arielle · June 27, 2026
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$6,740 → $6,999 across 85 recorded sales
2026-06 – 2026-07
Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal or investment forecast. Values can go down as well as up.
Live listings for this bag across the marketplaces we track, each rated against the fair value for its spec. We don’t sell these, we link you to the seller. Prices change and sell.
The Luxury Closet · listed yesterday
$9,248
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$4,995
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$5,350
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$5,695
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$5,720
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$5,995
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,235
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,265
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,290
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,305
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,565
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,740
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$6,930
The Luxury Closet · listed yesterday
$6,999
Above market · 242% overFashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$7,215
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$7,415
The Luxury Closet · listed yesterday
$7,654
Above market · 371% over
The Luxury Closet · listed yesterday
$8,555
Above market · 617% overFashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$8,795
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$8,795
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$8,795
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$8,795
Fashionphile · listed 2 days ago
$9,345
The Luxury Closet · listed yesterday
$15,770
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