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Francesca burned the red Hermes crocodile handbag for a photo shoot with her boyfriend, photographer, Tyler Shields. Shields Hermes Outlettold Francesca that burning the bag that is coveted by Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, and fashionistas world wide, was a way to prove that material objects don't define a person.However, according to Amanda Mull, managing editor of PurseBlog.com, which boasts more Hermes birkin handbagsthan 350,000 members and is the world's largest accessories website, the bag was clearly a fake, and a bad one at that!PHOTOS: Clint Eastwood And Family Hit The Small Screen"The bag Hermes Kellydepicted in Tyler Shields' photos struck me as a fake as soon as I saw it and the Hermes experts who read our blog and post in our forum agree," Mull tells RadarOnline.com. "The bag in the pre-burning Hermes Lindy photo looks thin, wrinkled and plasticky, which are all the signs of a cheap material, probably PVC, that's been embossed with a scale pattern to mimic real crocodile. If it were real the bag would be quite stiff and incredibly smooth with strong handles that wouldn't twist the way that they hermes bags 2012 do in Francesca Eastwood's mouth and material that wouldn't wrinkle or bunch as it does throughout the body of the bag."