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Louis Vuitton (French: [lwi vɥitɔ̃] ⓘ; 4 August 1821 – 27 February 1892) [1] was a French fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III. [2]
The Louis Vuitton label was founded by Vuitton in 1854 on Rue Neuve des Capucines in Paris. [21] Louis Vuitton had observed that the HJ Cave Osilite [22] trunk could be easily stacked. In 1858, Vuitton introduced his flat-topped trunks with Trianon canvas, making them lightweight and airtight. [21]
Georges Ferréol Vuitton (13 July 1857 – 26 October 1936) was the only child of Louis Vuitton (1821–1892; French designer and trunk maker for Empress Eugénie de Montijo [1] [2]) and Clemence-Emilie Vuitton, [3] who succeeded his father as head of the Louis Vuitton brand, which is now a brand under the umbrella of the parent company LVMH ...
By 1900 Merson was designing postage stamps for the French post and the Monaco post. [citation needed] He was teaching at the Académie Vitti in 1903. [2] By 1908 he had been contracted by the Bank of France to create a number of designs for some of the country's banknotes.
During the same stamp show, a five euro silver Marianne et l'Europe stamp was issued, with postal validity. [ 6 ] In September 2008, alongside a new offer targeting firm and companies, La Poste issued all Marianne et l'Europe denominations in form of self-adhesive stamps, sold in indivisible sheet of one hundred stamps or coil of three hundred.
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In 2022, Louis Vuitton announced a €1 million donation to UNICEF to help the Ukrainian victims of the Russian invasion. [107] On 2 March 2022, LVMH Group pledged €5 million to the Red Cross to those affected by the war. [108] [109] In addition, the company closed 124 of its stores in Russia. [110]
The first stamps to be forged were the common 6 and 12 pfennig Hitler head stamps. The forgeries were printed in Rome by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944. These stamps were applied to letters containing propaganda, marked with false postmarks (Wien 8, Wien 40, Hannover 1), and distributed by drops from airplanes as Operation Cornflakes.