The same year, he left Monsieur Maréchal to open his own box-making and packing workshop in Paris. In 1854, he married Clemence-Emilie Parriaux, with whom he later started a family. Louis Vuitton and factory workers 1888 - by LVMH
This was the entry into an entire new clientele of the royal and elite, so business was going great for Louis Vuitton. When in 1852 Napoleon III gained the title of Emperor of France, his wife, Eugenie de Montijo, hired Louis Vuitton as her personal box-maker and packer.
Quickly Louis gained a reputation as being one of the best in this field. Finally arriving in Paris, he was 16 years old, and soon got the opportunity to apprentice at the successful box-making and packing workshop of Monsieur Maréchal, where he ended up working for 17 years. He travelled 470 kilometers (293 miles) by foot, taking jobs along the way to keep himself alive. In the Spring of 1935, at only 13, Louis started his two years long journey of traveling to Paris. The story is that his new stepmother wasn’t a very nice person, and that she is one of the reasons Louis decided to leave his hometown. When Louis was 10 years old, his mother passed away and his father soon remarried. Louis Vuitton was born into a working-class family his father was a farmer and his mother a milliner. The history of one of the most iconic luxury brands.īeing the second oldest luxury brand that is still operating today, it’s no surprise that Louis Vuitton has been one of the most valuable luxury brands in the world for decades.The story of Louis Vuitton started almost two centuries ago, when the founder was born in 1821 in a small village in the east of France, called Anchay.