The origin of luggage:

The development of French luxury brand Louis Weedon, originally began with a walking trip across the trials of a long journey.

In 1835, Mr. Louis Weedon (Louis Vuitton) at the age of 14, bid farewell to close to the Swiss border Jurassic Luoshan District Anchay village home, walked 250 miles to Paris into the world. From the mill and the carpenter home he, in transit at a variety of coolie to solve three meals a persistent and earn travelling expenses, then the main craft wooden product, but to his production of beech and poplar wood craft high refinement, become the valuable experience of a lifetime.

In 1837 Mr Louis Weedon arrived in Huadu, and had the honor to become the trunk craftsmen Mr. Marechal Layetie-Emballeur apprentice, was producing boot craftsmen are collectively referred to as the Layetie-Emballeur.

In 1837 France's first railway opened to traffic in 1838, a European steamship first success across the Atlantic, a symbol of modern tourism's officially arrived, when Paris trunk artisans to handmade poplar trunk is very beautiful, and they in for royal family and nobles to tidy up the gorgeous outfit, so the capital Paris with a sharp rise in demand for its products.

In 1853, Louis Weedon was promoted to chief assistant boss, also become the most trusted boot expert Eugenie queen. Since becoming a royal, from the upper class are flocking to the guest immediately.

Louis Weedon married in 1854, the same year to make important decisions and set up his own company. [2] husband and wife in Rue Neuve Des Capucines distinguished lots of No. four (now Rue des Capucines) to open stores location with phantom square (Place Vendome) and later built opera house only zhichizhiyao.

The establishment of the company immediately after Louis Weedon made an important decision of far-reaching impact, is durable and waterproof canvas material with one suitcase cover. In four years (1858), he launched a new product - convenient transportation flat cover poplar trunk. The trunk surface covered with waterproof quality gray Trianon canvas, angle to the metal binding, mounted on the arm and the bracket, the surface of the beech wood to rivet nail; internal design also rich thoughts, a column spacer bottom box and convenient interval placing all kinds of clothing and elegant decorative lining. This new design can not only protect the clothing and easy to carry, more signs of Louis Weedon trunk shine forever and the official birth of modern tourism culture.

In 1859, Louis Weedon decided to bring the production line moved to has not been excavated on the outskirts of Impressionist painters - Asnieres. The quiet town of Asnieres is located in the banks of the Senna River, a very advantageous geographic location, making the trunk of the poplar wood from the nearby Oise Yamase Yu shipped to, within the town and railway connected to the Paris Saint-Lazare station.

In 1871 the Paris office is not available, then moved to a near the rue Scribe Road, the opposite is the famous Grand Hotel, at the grand theater next has not yet completed.

At that time, the company's business in the heyday, but the market is the emergence of imitation of all kinds, Louis Weedon in order to combat this plagiarism, then join the red and white striped pattern in the gray Trianon canvas in 1872.