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The Louis Vuitton Paris Show

Today I saw the Louis Vuitton Paris: Voyage en Capitale exhibit at the Mus Carnavalet in Paris. (The museum is part of the Parisian municipal museum system that includes the Notre Dame crypt and the catacombs.)

Polo Ralph Lauren Sale The exhibit, which runs until Feb. 27, 2011, showed how Louis Vuitton took was and is intertwined with the city of Paris itself. Louis Vuitton founded the company himself he started in 1837 with an apprenticeship with Marechal as a "trunk maker and packer" and became a salesman for the company two years later. In 1852, he became the packer for Empress Eugenie, which set him off for founding his own company in 1854.

The sadaknkj10 house made its first flat trunk in 1856 and distinguished itself by making lighter cases with waterproof canvas (the Trianon canvas). Vuitton also made some of the first specified trunks, like the compartment trunk, the bed trunk, and the watertight trunk. He started taking special orders in 1869. cnvnclkv

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Ralph Lauren Polo The Voyage exhibit had some interesting things to see like a Moroccan leather Milano model furnished portmanteau, from 1925, old artwork of scenes of Paris, and documents showing orders for Louis Vuitton products from famous people like the conductor Leopold Stokowski, circa 1929. But most guests will love the century old Louis Vuitton trunks themselves made of everything from crocodile and wood to canvas and resin.

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