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Louis Vuitton
Founded in Paris in 1854, Louis Vuitton is the world's foremost house of fine leather goods, famed for its iconic monogram canvas.
About Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton opened his first store in Paris in 1854 as a maker of packing cases and trunks — a craft he'd trained in for years as a personal box-maker to Empress Eugénie. His first real innovation wasn't decorative at all: he made the flat-topped trunk that made modern travel possible.
Built for a world just starting to travel
Before Louis Vuitton, most trunks had rounded tops so rain would run off — which meant they couldn't be stacked. His flat, rectangular design was purpose-built for the railway carriages and ocean liners reshaping 19th-century travel, and it's the reason "trunk-maker" still sits at the heart of the house's identity, long after the trunks themselves became rare.
A pattern designed to stop forgers
By the 1890s, Louis Vuitton's success had made it one of the most counterfeited names in Paris. In 1896, Georges Vuitton responded with the now-iconic LV monogram canvas — interlocking initials and quatrefoil flowers, influenced by the Japanese design motifs fashionable at the time — turning a legal problem into the house's most enduring signature.
Louis Vuitton remains the founding and largest maison of LVMH, the group its name lends itself to — and more than 165 years on, its ateliers still use many of the same hand-finishing techniques developed for 19th-century trunks.
