Yan Pei-Ming
Louis Vuitton as a young man, 2015
In 1906, a reference catalogue precisely inventoried items and luggage from Louis Vuitton. The trunks that would make the House a success were already there.
Louis, Georges and Gaston-Louis Vuitton posing with craftsmen in the courtyard of the Asnières-sur-Seine workshops, ca. 1888
Collage workshop at Asnières-sur-Seine, ca. 1903
Ideale trunk in natural cowhide, ca. 1903 with accessories from the 1900s
Paris suitcase in natural cowhide leather, 1914
Restrictive trunk in monogram canvas, once belonging to Gaston-Louis Vuitton, ca. 1925
Shoe trunk for thirty pairs of shoes in monogram canvas, once belonging to Yvonne Printemps, 1926
at the American Stock Exchange Building, through January 7th, 2018.
Admission is free
November 12th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 
This is super interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
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Thanks! Hope you weren’t too-too bored in the end, after a week’s worth of photos from this exhibit!
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Not at all!
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Magnifiques malles de voyage.
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Ils donnent vraiment envie de voyager, n’est-ce pas?
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Oh oui !
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I imagine Imelda Marcos would have liked the trunk with all the drawers for shoes!
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🙂 🙂 I imagine she would! And may be would have ordered half a dozen of them to fit ”the essentials”?
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