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Here’s your chance to go inside Louis Vuitton’s Alvarado handbag workshop

The paris-based house of brands will hold tours over three days..

By Alexandra Skores

3:30 PM on Sep 29, 2022 CDT

Luxury fashion retailer Louis Vuitton is opening spots to tour its handbag workshop just south of Fort Worth.

Guests will tour the 105-acre Louis Vuitton Rochambeau Ranch in Alvarado as part of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Les Journées Particulières , which translates to special days. This is the fifth time the company has done tours of its stores and manufacturing facilities.

Fifty-seven brands across 93 locations in 15 countries will open to the public, and the tours are free. Registration begins Thursday and ends Oct. 3 for one-hour tours on Oct. 14, 15 and 16. There will be five tours each day.

Les Journées Particulières is designed to show the company’s heritage and craftsmanship and attract new talent to enter a LVMH specialty.

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“It offers a rare opportunity to visit the actual locations where the magic occurs and gain precious insights into how our artisans shape dreams that, in turn, make our world a more beautiful place to be in,” said Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH, in a statement.

The luxury goods maker has a firm presence in North Texas.

In September 2021 , Louis Vuitton acquired a 160,000-square-foot property at 2901 Kinwest Parkway office campus in Las Colinas. According to documents filed with the state at the time, Louis Vuitton plans to renovate the property into a customer service center.

Louis Vuitton has a call center and other offices at 4200 Regent Blvd. in Irving. And the firm, which has its U.S. headquarters in New York, also has offices in Colleyville.

Former President Donald Trump, daughter Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and three top Cabinet officials visited the facility in 2019 when the handbag factory had just opened.

At the time, the facility employed 150 workers making purses and backpacks that sell for $1,400 to $2,200 apiece. The workshop produces popular styles, including Neverfull, Artsy, Iena, Graceful, Palm Spring and Neo Noe.

All U.S. based Louis Vuitton artisans undergo extensive training programs followed by years of apprenticeship to master the craft of making luxury leather goods with the same quality as those produced in Europe.

In July, the company reported almost $36 billion in sales for the first half of 2022, up 28% for the same period last year.

“We approach the second half of the year with confidence, but given the current geopolitical and health situation, we will remain vigilant and count on the agility and talent of our teams to further strengthen our global leadership position in luxury goods in 2022,” Arnault said in a statement at the time.

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton represents 75 “houses,” or brands, of wine and spirits, fashion and leather goods, perfume and cosmetics, watches, jewelry and more. The company has 156,000 employees globally, with 33,000 in the U.S. The company has 780 retail stores in the U.S. and six production sites.

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Alexandra Skores , Aviation Reporter . Alexandra Skores is the aviation writer for The Dallas Morning News, covering airlines, air travel and the aerospace industry. She's a graduate of the University of Iowa. Alexandra has previously worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Oregon and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Look Inside Louis Vuitton’s Home, Now the Site of La Galerie

By Hannah Martin

Less than a year after Louis Vuitton unveiled its startlingly angular Frank Gehry–designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the luxury brand has opened its petite counterpart, La Galerie. After all, what better time than couture week to fling open to the doors (and garden gates) to one of the most exclusive locations in France: Louis Vuitton’s historic home and atelier located in the Paris suburb, Asnières-sur-Seine. Of course, a garden party was in order.

Vuitton built the famed residence—where fashion types sipped on Champagne and green juice Sunday afternoon—in the Seine-side suburb in 1959. Production had outgrown his petite Paris atelier and in this new, riverside locale he could easily import poplar wood—it arrived atop a Louis Vuitton barge—for his hefty, now-iconic trunks. He soon built a series of structures in the glass-and-steel Eiffel style, which, through the following century, bore witness to a sum of history-making events—the creation of the brand’s signature Monogram pattern, the Houdini Challenge to test its patented locks—and countless family dinners of pot au feu .

Though the family moved out of the home in 1964, the atelier remained in business, specializing in hard-sided luggage and, perhaps most importantly, housing the brand’s vast archive. For the permanent show in the newly opened La Galerie—a stark series of rooms with vaulted steel-and-wood ceilings—curator Judith Clark sifted through 165,000 documents and 23,000 objects to select a handful of pieces that would give insight into the storied history of the brand. In the show, never-before-seen items like Gaston-Louis Vuitton’s letters, Loïe Fuller’s dance accessories, and Frank Gehry’s design for Fondation Louis Vuitton join luggage, objects, and clothing created by the label over the years. Inspired by a wood cube puzzle she found in the archives, Clark displayed all of the objects and clothing, organized by theme, in and around arrangements of poplar boxes or wood planks on wheels.

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From May 4 to September 9, 2024, a landmark exhibition dedicated to The Red Studio (1911) by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is being presented at the same time as a new retrospective of the work of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings.

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The Fondation, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and the SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (National Gallery of Denmark) - is hosting the exhibition “Matisse: The Red Studio”, focusing on the genesis and history of this famous 1911 masterpiece, one of MoMA’s iconic works since its acquisition in 1949.

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Louis Vuitton’s LV Dream: A New Experience in Paris

“Those people who say money can’t buy happiness obviously never owned a Louis Vuitton purse”. — Anonymous

We’ve lined up patiently outside the chic Louis Vuitton flagship store on Avenue des Champs Elysées. Acquiring that limited edition purse, handbag, trunk, Speedy, Neverfull tote, Miss Vivienne… makes the wait well worthwhile. We’ve stood gazing in wonder at the monumental Fondation Louis Vuitton, designed by Frank Gehry.

Now, for the first time in Paris, for one year only, Louis Vuitton presents “LV Dream Space.” This chic pop-up marks the welcome evolution of the Pont Neuf district, beautifully located on the banks of the River Seine, which began with the transformation of La Samaritaine department store (circa 1870) and the Cheval Blanc Hotel (also owned by parent company, the luxury conglomerate LVMH).

Open 7/7, LV Dream occupies a space located within the same building as Vuitton’s corporate offices, formerly home to the Conforama furniture store. (A Louis Vuitton branded luxury hotel is planned for the premises in the future — see BP’s recent “Letter from Paris.” ) LV Dream offers incredible interactive experiences throughout nine rooms, showcasing the collaboration and partnerships with artists, architects and avant garde designers such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Cindy Sherman and Yayoi Kusama. Look out for previously unseen portraits of Louis Vuitton by hip American figurative artist Alex Katz. Visits are free, but must be booked on the Vuitton website (see below).

Then, cherry on the gâteau , there’s the unique café and chocolate factory experience. Located on the first floor above the exhibition, these two spaces strut an industrial style embellished with tropical plants. Maxime Frédéric, the creative and talented young pastry chef at Cheval Blanc Paris, translates Louis Vuitton’s iconic motifs into entremets, éclairs and pastries, staged like works of art on a corrugated counter. Oh la la   !

In the chocolate factory, a curvilinear counter in natural oak is surrounded with stacked trunks, interspersed with niches to present the boxes of chocolate. Playing once again with the codes of the House, Maxime Frédéric has developed bars in the shape of, say, a Damier bag, Vivienne chocolate marshmallows, Monogram candies among other confectionery. These treats are beautifully packaged in saffron-colored boxes sealed with the signature blue ribbon.

And then there’s the irresistible gift shop, resolutely organic and curvaceous, intended to be a chill-out space where visitors can discover exclusive objects related to the exhibition, such as address holders, cards, shopping bags stamped with the LV DREAM logo. I covet every item in the collection of small leather goods, accessories, perfumes etc.

The Back Story:

Founder of the iconic, wishlist brand Louis Vuitton , the legendary French fashion designer and businessman (1821-1892) was originally a box-maker and packer. Vuitton left home in the Jura region, eastern France, at the age of 13, walking the 292 miles to reach Paris, taking odd jobs en route to earn a crust. He reached the capital two years later where he was taken on as apprentice in the workshop of box-maker Monsieur Romain Marechal. Within a few years LV’s dedication and hard work gained him the reputation amongst Paris’s elite and fashionable class as a first-class designer. His fortunes and reputation rose when he was appointed “trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo,” wife of Napoleon III. This position opened opportunities to a new class of a rich royal clientele and he opened his first boutique in 1854. The rest, as they say, is history.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Louis Vuitton. Attention: it will be habit forming.

From December 12th, 2022.

2, rue du Pont Neuf, 1st (formerly La Belle Jardinière department store) Open: Monday to Sunday, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Admission free Reserve for the exhibition here: https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/magazine/articles/lv-dream

Note: No reservations are needed for “Maxime Frédéric at Louis Vuitton” and the gift shop.

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Covering 30 destinations in both print and digital versions, the Louis Vuitton City Guides are widely regarded as indispensable companions for the discerning traveler.

For over 20 years, Louis Vuitton has instilled its signature Spirit of Travel into its growing City Guide series to propose fresh and personal perspectives on a variety of destinations across the globe. Featuring independent writers and guests with wide and varied backgrounds, each guide spots trends and reveals unique insights: from grand luxury hotels to charming boutique inns, top-tier restaurants to neighborhood bistros, antique shops to fashion boutiques, along with iconic must-sees and little‑known places. Special guest contributors, secret places, walking tours, cultural events, recommendations from savvy journalists, photographic portfolios – the spirit of the Louis Vuitton City Guide series is constantly evolving, taking its unique approach in new directions.

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This is one of Louis Vuitton's only American factories, and it specializes in fine leather goods given its location in Texas cattle country. While not normally open to the public, LVMH opened their facilities to guided tours for one weekend as part of their Les Journées Particulières, giving a fascinating look behind the scenes. Located pretty far from Fort Worth in the countryside, this ranch has attractive Western terrain with live oaks, cacti and thick brush alongside winding paved roads with street lamps leading to the large compound of stone and glass buildings with plenty of paved parking. The main entrance building has an attractive front desk and lounge decorated with Louis Vuitton purses and books leading to hallways of framed photos and artwork representing Louis Vuitton history. Once one goes through the enclosed walkway to the main factory there's a chamber with original steamer trunks on display along with a huge mascot statue, and then it's onto the rows and rows of sewing machines, leather working equipment and more. The tour was an excellent way to learn some of the history of the company and facility and learn their attention to detail. While there's no telling when such an event will happen again (I hope it's an annual tradition!), I definitely recommend jumping on it any time it's possible. The factory workers and other employees were so welcoming and informative, and it was well worth the drive from Austin.

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Since its founding in 1854, Louis Vuitton has been a part of this emergence of modern globe-trotting, having equipped passengers with trunks and luggage for the long haul – whether they were explorers, eccentrics, aristocrats, artists, hedonists or adventurers. Author and world traveler Francisca Mattéoli tells 50 of the most remarkable of journeys of the past two centuries in this richly illustrated saga full of images from Louis Vuitton’s archives, vintage photographs and travel posters.

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On the other side of the Atlantic, Fondation Louis Vuitton, the museum and cultural center supported by LVMH that recently had a very buzzy Mark Rothko retrospective, has invited the artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest to present an exhibition for the Venice Biennale. Since the 1960s, Pignon-Ernest has touched on the notion of "the foreigner" and frequently uses migrants and poets as subjects. The exhibition features two new portraits of the poet Russian Anna Akhmatova and the Iranian Forough Farrokhzhad.

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Presented at the Long Museum in Shanghai as part of a ‘Voyager’ Show, Louis Vuitton debuted its women’s pre-fall 2024 Collection—a remarkable take on Chinese tradition under the creative direction of Nicolas Ghesquière.

The collection showcased a daring fusion of bold patterns, striking silhouettes, and unexpected pairings, emblematic of Louis Vuitton’s relentless commitment to pushing the boundaries of fashion. From statement outerwear to sleek separates, each piece exuded a sense of individualistic modernity.

Collaborating with contemporary artist Sun Yitian, the collection also featured a lively color palette, symbolizing the resilience and vitality of Chinese youth. Highlighting Yitian’s representation of exotic animals, short and long fabrics intermingled while opposing prints and motifs created stark contrasts within each look. Accessories played a central role, with iconic Louis Vuitton pieces like the Petite Malle and the Twist undergoing modernized reinterpretations.

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Every Look From Zendaya’s Challengers Press Tour Was a Total Serve

By Alex Kessler

The jury might be out on method dressing , but its media impact is undeniable. Zendaya’s press tour outfits for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a prime example of this; Vogue’s May cover star has amplified the film’s visibility while delivering major looks.

From the outset, Zendaya and her stylist Law Roach set a new standard in press tour fashion, with custom designs by Loewe, Jacquemus and Thom Browne, plus rare vintage finds from Ralph Lauren, Vivienne Westwood and Louis Vuitton. Even the more understated looks by Brunello Cucinelli and Tory Burch have left a lasting impression.

Below, see all of Zendaya’s most unforgettable looks from the Challengers press tour. Game, set, match.

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From Glambots to Tennis-Core, See Zendaya’s Best Red-Carpet Looks This Year

T here's no denying that 2024 has already been booked and busy for Zendaya . Since the year started, the Euphoria star has dominated the box office with her blockbuster sequel Dune: Part Two , nabbed not one, but two Vogue covers (the American and British editions), and been tapped to co-chair the annual (and very exclusive) Met Gala . This week, her latest and much anticipated film, Challengers , releases in theaters, putting Zendaya squarely in the spotlight as Tashi Duncan, a powerful tennis competitor at the center of a steamy love triangle.

Zendaya's many projects have translated into a plethora of red-carpet appearances and press calls, which, in turn, have resulted in a wealth of high-fashion serves from the actor and her longtime collaborator and "image architect," Law Roach . While Zendaya, a veritable style superstar, could always be counted on for a bold, experimental, and show-stopping sartorial moment, her current looks have elevated to an art the practice of dressing up for the press tour .

In Zendaya and Roach's capable hands, the themes of her movies cleverly translate into clothing, whether that's a futuristic silver glambot suit sourced from the Mugler archives for the London premiere of Dune: Part Two or a subversively preppy Thom Browne gown that riffs on tennis whites for the London premiere of Challengers. Her fashion choices feel less like promotion than they do an extension of her work as an artist, with clothes as her medium, which might explain why this year, watching her press tour has been almost as much fun as heading to theaters to watch her movies.

With that in mind, we've rounded up all of Zendaya's best looks from the red carpet so far in 2024.

For the Mexico City premiere of Dune: Part Two , Zendaya wore a dramatic Torishéju gown.

Zendaya went for gold in a custom two-piece set from Louis Vuitton for the Paris premiere of Dune: Part Two .

Zendaya stunned at the London premiere of Dune: Part Two when she showed up in a vintage Mugler ensemble fit for a glambot.

For the Seoul premiere of Dune: Part Two , Zendaya wore a vintage Givenchy suit designed by Alexander McQueen during his time as their creative director. The gray ensemble had glow-in-the dark embellishments.

Zendaya wore a futuristic white Stéphane Rolland gown with dramatic cutouts and gold embellishment on the hem to the New York City premiere of Dune: Part Two .

For the 2024 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollwood Awards, Zendaya wore an embroidered corset top, jeans, and a stacked choker necklace, all from Jean Paul Gaultier.

For the 2024 Oscars, Zendaya wore a pink and gunmetal embellished Armani Privé gown.

Zendaya sparkled in a custom Loewe gown that paid homage to Challengers ; Loewe's creative director, Jonathan Anderson, was the costume designer on the film.

For a press call in Paris, Zendaya took a mod approach, selecting a vintage checkered Marc Jacobs coat dress and accessorizing with white pumps and a headband.

For the Paris Challengers premiere, Zendaya donned a diaphanous custom white Louis Vuitton gown with a matching belt.

Zendaya made a cheeky showing at a London press call when she arrived in an archival Vivienne Westwood striped vest and matching mini skirt with a feather bustle.

For a press call in Rome, Zendaya wore a sparkling tennis-inspired mini dress and a pair of tennis ball-embellished pumps, both of which were custom Loewe.

Zendaya made the case for quiet luxury with her elegant Brunello Cucinelli sweater and matching maxi skirt a press call in Monte Carlo.

For an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Los Angeles, Zendaya styled a vintage gray Ralph Lauren double breasted blazer as a mini dress and completed the look with a pair of white pumps.

Zendaya put a subversive twist on the concept of tennis whites with a custom Thom Browne gown with mesh inserts and tennis racquet embroidery. She accessorized the look with a pair of white pumps and an oversized hairbow.

For a press call in Milan, Zendaya wore a minimalist vintage Ralph Lauren white mini dress that was previously modeled by Cindy Crawford in 1992.

Zendaya departed from her tennis-inspired looks on the Challengers press tour for the Los Angeles premiere, where she wore a romantic lace-embellished black and pink Vera Wang gown.

She quickly switched gears again to serve a truly tennis-inspired look for Challengers ' Los Angeles premiere after-party in a dramatic lime green Celia Kritharioti halter dress with a plunging neckline and tennis ball embellishment.

For a press call in Los Angeles, Zendaya wore a ladylike yet daring (and midriff-baring) baby pink dress from Jacquemus, accessorizing it with a pair of matching sling back pumps and a pink bow headband.

Zendaya continued her streak of tennis-ball green outfits with a vintage Mugler skirt suit and matching pumps for a visit to Good Morning America .

For her actual appearance on Good Morning America , Zendaya channeled Old Hollywood with a bespoke floral gown with a full tulle skirt by Erdem, pairing it with a pair of white pumps.

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