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Louis Vuitton
Founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton in Paris, Louis Vuitton Malletier is one of the world's most valuable luxury houses and the largest revenue contributor to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. The brand is built around its trunk-making heritage, the Monogram canvas drawn by Georges Vuitton in 1896, and a creative-director architecture that today separates womenswear under Nicolas Ghesquière from menswear under Pharrell Williams.
- Founded
- 1854
- Industry
- Fashion · Luxury · Apparel
- Headquarters
- France
- Ownership
- Public company
- Parent company
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- LVMH
Key Facts
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Brand Chronology
Louis Vuitton makes its departure-board watch permanent (2026)
Louis Vuitton makes its departure-board watch permanent
2026
Louis Vuitton adds five Tambour Spin Time watches to its permanent collection, each telling the hour like a departure board.
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Drophaus at the Fondation (2026)
Drophaus at the Fondation
2026
Pharrell Williams stages the Louis Vuitton Fall 2026 menswear show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton with Not a Hotel's Drophaus.
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Core values returns to the summit with Federer and Nadal (2024)
Core values returns to the summit with Federer and Nadal
2024
Louis Vuitton revives its Core Values series with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the Dolomites, shot by Annie Leibovitz.
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Pharrell Williams becomes Menswear Creative Director (2023)
Pharrell Williams
becomes Menswear Creative Director
Yayoi Kusama returns with a giant sculpture and a global window takeover (2023)
Yayoi Kusama returns with a giant sculpture and a global window takeover
2023
Louis Vuitton's second Yayoi Kusama collaboration covers the Champs-Élysées flagship in dots and installs animatronic Kusama robots in global windows.
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Virgil Abloh becomes Menswear Creative Director (2018)
Virgil Abloh
becomes Menswear Creative Director
Supreme and Louis Vuitton stage the FW17 Friends and Heroes collaboration (2017)
Supreme and Louis Vuitton stage the FW17 Friends and Heroes collaboration
2017
Supreme and Louis Vuitton staged the FW17 Friends and Heroes show in Paris, legitimising the streetwear-luxury crossover.
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Six iconoclasts reinterpret the Monogram for Louis Vuitton's 160th anniversary (2014)
Six iconoclasts reinterpret the Monogram for Louis Vuitton's 160th anniversary
2014
Louis Vuitton's 160th anniversary commissioned Karl Lagerfeld, Frank Gehry, Cindy Sherman, Marc Newson, Christian Louboutin and Rei Kawakubo to reinterpret the Monogram.
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Nicolas Ghesquière becomes Artistic Director of Womenswear (2013)
Nicolas Ghesquière
becomes Artistic Director of Womenswear
L'Invitation au Voyage gives the Maison a cinematic ad platform (2012)
L'Invitation au Voyage gives the Maison a cinematic ad platform
2012
Louis Vuitton's 2012 L'Invitation au Voyage campaign moved the Maison's advertising voice from print Core Values into cinema.
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Yayoi Kusama and the infinite dots (2012)
Yayoi Kusama and the infinite dots
2012
Marc Jacobs invited Yayoi Kusama to overlay the Monogram with her Infinity Dots in 2012, the boldest pattern intervention since Sprouse.
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Core values and the journey platform (2007)
Core values and the journey platform
2007
Annie Leibovitz photographed Mikhail Gorbachev for the launch of Louis Vuitton's Core Values, the brand's longest-running ad platform.
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Murakami remixes the Monogram in thirty-three colours (2003)
Murakami remixes the Monogram in thirty-three colours
2003
Marc Jacobs's Spring/Summer 2003 collection introduced Takashi Murakami's Multicolore Monogram in thirty-three colours.
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Stephen Sprouse vandalises the monogram (2001)
Stephen Sprouse vandalises the monogram
2001
Marc Jacobs invited Stephen Sprouse to spray-paint the LV monogram in 2001, reframing luxury as a host for street culture.
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The Louis Vuitton Steiff bear sets the all-time auction record in Monaco (2000)
The Louis Vuitton Steiff bear sets the all-time auction record in Monaco
2000
At Les Teddies de l'an 2000 in Monaco, a Steiff bear dressed by Louis Vuitton sold for 213,720 euros and entered the Guinness World Records.
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Marc Jacobs becomes Creative Director (1997)
Marc Jacobs
becomes Creative Director
The monogram canvas (1896)
The monogram canvas
1896
Georges Vuitton designed the LV Monogram in 1896 as an anti-counterfeiting move that became fashion's most copied pattern.
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Logo Design (1854)
Logo Design
1854
The iconic monogram of Louis Vuitton became a powerful symbol of luxury, elegance, and craftsmanship. Although the intertwined “L” and “V” represented founder Louis Vuitton, the logo was actually created by his son, Georges Vuitton, in 1896. Georges introduced the monogram alongside floral motifs to distinguish the brand’s products and combat imitation. First used on the company’s waterproof trunks, the design quickly became a globally recognized symbol of prestige and high fashion.
Founded
1854
Trunk maker Louis Vuitton opened his workshop on Rue Neuve des Capucines in Paris in 1854, introducing flat topped trunks that could be stacked for travel.
