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1901, the Louis Vuitton Company introduced the Steamer Bag, a smaller piece of luggage designed to be stored in Vuitton’s trunk. In 1901, the Louis Vuitton Company introduced the Steamer Bag, a smaller piece of luggage designed to be stored in Vuitton’s trunks. Louis Vuitton later expanded its presence in Asia and opened a store in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1983 and in Seoul, South Korea in 1984. The products presented this year also included the Monogram Vernis line, the LV Scrapbooks, and the Louis Vuitton City Guide. Today, Vuitton products are mainly available in company-owned Louis Vuitton boutiques, with a few exceptions in upscale shopping areas or luxury department stores.
Part of the music video for the song Do Somethin’ shows fingers tapping on the dashboard of a pink lobster whose design looks like Louis Vuitton’s Cherry Blossom and bears the LV logo. There were comments on Japanese social media that the company management had apparently forgotten the origins of Louis Vuitton’s designs. During this time, Louis Vuitton began to incorporate leather into most of its products, which ranged from small purses and wallets to larger pieces of luggage. The French book Louis Vuitton, A French Saga, written by French journalist Stephanie Bonvicini and published by Editions Fayard in Paris, tells how members of the Vuitton family actively supported the Vichy government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain and increased their wealth through their business relationships with the Germans.
The graffiti had Louis Vuitton on it and on certain bags the name of the bag (such as Keepall and Speedy). Moët et Chandon and Hennessy, leading producers of champagne and cognac, each merged with Louis Vuitton to form a luxury goods conglomerate. Louis Vuitton, however, changed the colors from the original black and white to blue and white, which Palestinians and pro-Palestinian social media activists called the colors of the Israeli flag, and wore the patterns characteristic of the House of Representatives, which was described as “shameful.”
