Doesn’t this sunny girl look smashing for 158 years of age? Out to lunch, at a BBQ, relaxing by the pool, Lady LV cannot get enough of the sun. Her skin has kept its glow ever since she came home to me, care of a decadent decision taken while abroad by my dashing Mr. H.
Well, Lady LV is really not that old! Its more her first-class lineage that provides her the poise of a well-bred woman. In fact, lets take a moment to pay homage to her forebears who, in 1821, rained down upon humble humanity luxurious fashion and inspired design…
Sun-tanning Supermodel: NIKON D3000 f/7.1; Exposure 1/800sec; ISO-100
When Napoleon Bonaparte assumed the title of Emperor of the French in 1852, his wife hired Louis Vuitton as her personal box-maker and packer. But life for young Louis did not commence in such bejewelled splendor. Born in the small, wooded hamlet of Anchay, Vuitton’s mother passed away when he was 10 years old, and his father soon remarried. Legend has it that Vuitton’s new stepmother was severe and wicked. Antagonized by his stepmother and bored by the provincial life, Vuitton resolved to run away for Paris.
So on the first day of tolerable weather in the spring of 1835, at the age of 13, Vuitton left home alone and on foot. He traveled for more than two years, taking odd jobs to feed himself and taking shelter where he could, as he walked the 292-mile trek. He arrived in 1837, at the age of 16, to a capital city encased in the smog of an industrial revolution.
But out of this smog came opportunity and good fortune. On December 2nd 1851, 16 years after young Vuitton arrived in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte staged a coup d’etat. Exactly one year later, he assumed the title of Emperor under the regal name Napoleon III. And with him came his glamorous wife Eugenie de Montijo, a Spanish countess.
Upon marrying the Emperor, she hired Vuitton as her personal box-maker and packer and charged him with “packing the most beautiful clothes in an exquisite way”…
What a marvelous job description!
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