Monsieur vuitton biography

According to Forbes Magazine, Louis Vuitton was the world’s most valuable luxury brand in Synonymous with elegance and sophistication, it seeks to “embody unique savoir-faire, a carefully preserved heritage and dynamic engagement with modernity”.

Louis Vuitton is so famous and well-established that few people pause to consider the extraordinary life story of its eponymous founder, Monsieur Louis Vuitton. Vuitton’s life reads like a fairy-tale, with a painful start and a glittering trajectory. The designer was born years ago this week, on 4 August , into a family of artisans in the Jura, a mountainous, wooded region in eastern France. Vuitton was ten years old when his mother died, and his father remarried a younger woman who lived up to the classic trope of the evil stepmother. The situation at home became unbearable for the young Louis – a stubborn child with a strong character – and, longing to escape the constraints of provincial life, he set off alone to make his way in the world, aged just thirteen.

Vuitton walked to Paris, a journey of approximately miles. It took him two years, and he picked up odd jobs along the way, sleeping in whatever shelter was available and tinkering with various crafts. When Vuitton arrived in Paris, aged still only sixteen, the city was booming, in the throes of the industrial revolution. It is hard to imagine the sheer courage and initiative that Vuitton would have needed to establish himself, with no contacts, to rise above the poverty, inequality and misery that was the norm for most Parisians at the time.

Paris was also a city of opportunity, however. As Fergus Mason, Louis Vuitton’s biographer points out, the city “was a cultural as well as industrial capital and there was a lot of wealth floating around”. Vuitton secured an apprenticeship with a box-maker and packer named Monsieur Maréchal. It w

French fashion designer and businessman (–)

Louis Vuitton (French:[lwivɥitɔ̃]; 4 August – 27 February ) was a French fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III.

Life and career

Vuitton was born to a family of artisans, carpenters, and farmers. At the age of 10, his mother, a hat-maker, died, and his father followed soon after. Following a difficult relationship with his adoptive stepmother, Vuitton left his home in Jura (department), in Franche-Comté in the spring of , at the age of Taking odd jobs along the way, Vuitton traveled approximately miles (&#;km) to Paris. Arriving in , in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, he apprenticed under Monsieur Marechal, a successful trunk maker and packer. Within a few years, Vuitton gained a reputation amongst Paris' more fashionable class as one of the city's premier practitioners of the craft.

After the reestablishment of the French Empire under Napoleon III, Vuitton was hired as a personal trunk maker and packer for the Empress of The French. She charged him with "packing the most beautiful clothes in a quite exquisite way." This provided Vuitton with a gateway to his other elite and royal clients who provided him with work for the rest of his career.

In , at age 33, Vuitton married year-old Clemence-Emilie Parriaux. Soon after, he left Marechal's shop and opened his own trunk making and packing workshop in Paris. Outside of his shop hung a sign that read: "Securely packs the most fragile objects. Specializing in packing fashions." In , inspired by H.J. Cave & Sons of London, Vuitton introduced his revolutionary rectangular canvas trunks at a time when the market had only rounded-top leather trunks. The demand for Vuitton's durable, lightweight desi

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Who Was Louis Vuitton?

When Napoleon assumed the title of Emperor of the French in , his wife hired Louis Vuitton as her personal box-maker and packer. This provided a gateway for Vuitton to a class of elite and royal clientele who would seek his services for the duration of his life and far beyond, as the Louis Vuitton brand would grow into the world-renowned luxury leather and lifestyle brand it is today.

Early Life

Vuitton was born on August 4, , in Anchay, a small hamlet in eastern France's mountainous, heavily wooded Jura region. Descended from a long-established working-class family, Vuitton's ancestors were joiners, carpenters, farmers and milliners. His father, Xavier, was a farmer, and his mother, Coronne Gaillard, was a milliner.

Vuitton's mother passed away when he was only 10 years old, and his father soon remarried. As legend has it, Vuitton's new stepmother was as severe and wicked as any fairy-tale Cinderella villain. A stubborn and headstrong child, antagonized by his stepmother and bored by the provincial life in Anchay, Vuitton resolved to run away for the bustling capital of Paris.

On the first day of tolerable weather in the spring of , at the age of 13, Vuitton left home alone and on foot, bound for Paris. He traveled for more than two years, taking odd jobs to feed himself along the way and staying wherever he could find shelter, as he walked the mile trek from his native Anchay to Paris. He arrived in , at the age of 16, to a capital city in the thick of an industrial revolution that had produced a litany of contradictions: awe-inspiring grandeur and abject poverty, rapid growth and devastating epidemics.

Rise to Prominence

The teenage Vuitton was taken in as an apprentice in the workshop of a successful box-maker and packer named Monsieur Marechal. In 19th century Europe, box-making and packing was a highly respectable and urbane craft. A box-maker and packer custom-made all boxes to fit the goods they stored

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 CHAPTER 1: LOUIS VUITTON, PORTRAIT OF A TALENTED CRAFTSMAN

Photo: Louis Vuitton

          Everyone has already heard the name "Louis Vuitton". Everyone knows what their LV monogrammed brown canvas looks like, which has become so famous that it is also the most counterfeited in the world. But who is Louis Vuitton, founder of the brand? Today we confide you the portrait of a man who started from scratch and went down in history.
Born on August 4, , at the water mill of Chabouilla, near Anchay, in Jura, Louis Vuitton lived in a family more than modest. His father, a miller and a joiner, soon taught him how to handle tools and to work with wood. At the age of 16, he decides to leave the family home in order to try his luck in Paris and walks the kilometres that separate him from the capital. Old enough to be an apprentice, and knowing how to handle woodworking tools, he joins the workshop of Mr. Maréchal, a box-maker, packer and trunk-maker (a job that consisted of packing the many belongings of wealthy travellers) and makes trunks for travelling.

         Louis Vuitton distinguishes himself by his sense of aesthetics, his delicate and well-done work as well as his discretion. More and more customers of Mr. Maréchal are insistent that it should be the Jurassien who takes care of packing their belongings. Moreover, he becomes Empress Eugenie’s favourite packer in The revolution in the means of transport, with steam trains and automobiles, enables international tourism to develop. Travelling becomes more and more accessible. Louis Vuitton has then a revelation: rather than create a specific packaging for each object, why not make a line of innovative and functional luxury luggage? He creates then his first "Louis Vuitton" boutique in , at 4 Neuve-des-Capucines street in Pari