Louis Vuitton Development Course

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1821:The founder named Louis Vuitton was born in Franche-Comte Province,France.

1837:The sixteen-year-old Louis Vuitton left his hometown and helped arrange the clothes of Parisian noblemen.

1852:NapoleonⅢ scended the throne ,and Louis Vuitton was choosen to be the Queen’s tied worker,since then he setted his foot on the royal society.

1853:Winned the belief of Queen’s

1854:The first leather store (Paris).

1885:The first store in the foreign countries (London).

1859:Founded his own factory in Asniёres.

1867:In the Paris Expo,the Louis Vuitton productions and their makers winned the fame,this Expo made the brand became really hot.

1885:The territory was expanded to London.

1890:He invented the special lock and is still used today.

1990:Georges Vuitton,the son of Louis Vuitton,carried on his father’s work,and diversified the suitcases,released the leather cases,shoe cases,cap cases that could hang clothes.

1901:The SteamerBag came out which was a great design in the modern soft bags.

1914:The largest leather store was opened on the Li Champs Elysees,and this store later became the center of Louis Vuitton ‘s world-wide selling system’s expand.

1920:The feudal tradition had broken off,people all over the world began to travel around,the customer groups of Louis Vuitton including some celebirties and peers like Chanel Lady,India Queen and the president of France. Every time that they travelled,the luggage could be more than 30.

1924:Georges Vuitton designed the Keepall multi-function bags,which became the founder of modern long pillow-shaped bags.

1931:Gaston,the son of Georges Vuitton,designed some Cabin luggage and tableware cases,and they made it more convenient for the aeroplane passengers like the light suitcaseswhich were free scalable.

1932:The bucketbags of Louis Vuitton came to the scene, and they were named Noe (the name was from the Bible). It is said that at that time the designer wanna give five bottles of Champagne to his friends as a present,but was troubled because of no suitable bags to hold them, then his inspiration came along,so the leather bag which was narrow upper and wide down and used a leather rope to tighten it was released.

1936:Designed a special suitcase for well-known conductor Leopold Stokoski and named it with the name, it was like a mini moving office.

1954:the anniversary of one century from founded.The store which used to be on the Li Champs Elysees was moved to be around the Arc De Triomphe where the stores only sells dear goods.

1984:Listed in the stock markets of Paris and New York at the same time.And it’s brought to Taiwan,and the store was located between the Dunhua Southern Road and Ren’ai junction.and it also cooperated with Spanish leather company LOEWE to improve its oversea bussiness.

1986:Invented Epi series and became popular all over the world.

1987:Bought Veuve Clicquot Company which owned Veuve Clicquot Champagne and Givenchy perfume.In September,Louis Vuitton was combined with Hennessy,and became the largest group LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy).

1989:Open the global modeling store at NO.54,Avenie Montaigue,Paris to replace the old store in the district.

1990:Began to become an omni-directional brand.Besides leather,it expanded to produce some kinds of blankets, clothes and pens.

1996:For celebrating the anniversary of 100 years of inventing Monogram,it invited seven well-known designers to design the limited edition.

1998:The clothes designer Marc Jacobs joined and published Vernis Line which got a lot of praise.

1998:Joined the Boutique apparel rank.And when the World Cup was held in France,for matching the important event ‘Hometown’,produced three thousand Monogram footballs of limited edition.

1999:Opened the global modeling store in Taiwan.