wanders out of her ritzy Upper East Side townhouse with her brown Hermès Birkin bag in tow. “I’m out front a little early,” she tells her driver on the phone, as she pulls out a cigarette—only for a mugger to quickly run by and snatch her purse. “Hey! Stop him,’” she screams to pedestrians as she runs after the assailant in her chic stilettos. And just like that, her pricey designer bag is gone.
For the remainder of the episode, Seema is distraught over the luxurious theft. “I splurged on that bag as a gift to myself after my very first big sale,” she tells Carrie. “I bought it so long ago there wasn’t even a waitlist!” It’s no wonder she’s in despair: These days,for an Hermès Birkin bag pretty much doesn’t exist—you have to be “offered” the bag by a sales associate.