Earlier this month, Louis Vuitton unveiled Fly, Sail, Travel, an exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris focused on its luggage-making heritage.
Some of the icons included in the display? There’s the original Noé bag from 1932, which was built to carry five bottles of champagne, next to its reinvented form as a handbag in 1980. There are even-more-coveted, hard-to-find “flower” trunks that the house gifted clients during the Belle Époque. And as an ode to putting your own initials on Vuitton’s monogram pieces, a hard-sided suitcase personalized by Christian Dior is on view.
There’s even a bit of history behind the Grand Palais, the location picked for the exhibit. When it was constructed at the turn of the century for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, George Vuitton was tasked with organizing the “Travel and Leather Goods” section (which, of course, featured some of his own luggage).
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By Susie Kostaras, Managing Editor
