Vuitton/ the museum and Leibowitz

I use to love going into the local museum during lunch on free day, I was able to get really familiar with the resident paintings on the wall...but the real treats were visiting paintings by famous artist to the museum. They made their trips from many corners of the earth to hang on the walls of museums for weeks to enjoy. Anyhow, I was struck by a collection of photographs taken by a famous Photographer Leibowitz, she photographs celebrities and others that have the cash to get her camera pointed in their direction. A picture that you could almost walk into was of 'Mos Def,' an actor and singer.
For the longest time, I waited to see if he would blink or something because the picture seemed so alive to me; I even became a fan of his because of his beautiful face. I went to work finding a movie that he was casted to see him in action. It doesn't all end here though; back to Lebonwitz, she worked with Louis Vuitton for promotion material for a new collection, she was able to take an amazing image-that I have seen of late; it is of some of the first astronants posed around this old pick-up truck in the center of the desert-looking at the mid-night blue sky and the stars seemingly racing to their next conquest, it is brilliant. The lady on the hood has a Louis Vitton handbag laying beside her. To me, and my marketing instincts it is saying three things at once that Louis Vuitton [it's hard to look away from this photo] is setting a high bar in the fashion world and that the old pick-up (I'm not a truck expert but I know that it's American made and fabulous) belongs with the stellar heights of Louis Vuitton and the space crew. All seemingly unrelated juxtaposed into a fashionable traveling motif. It almost seems unfair to other fashion houses. Anne Leibowitz genius really spoke this time. Click world of Louis Vuitton: http://www.louisvuitton.com/en/flash/index.jsp?direct1=home_entry_gb0

A little story about the founder Vuitton. He was born in Jura France in 1821.

In 1835 moved to Paris France making his trip there by foot;

can you image Louis Vuitton having to walk down a dirt road someplace.

I love stories like this.

On the way he picked up odd jobs to finance himself.

Becoming an apprentice to French royality he learned

what a good traveling case should be. He then began to

design his own luggage. Before his introduction, common traveling cases

were rounded at the top to promote water run-off.

Vuitton, created the first flat-top trunks for ease of stacking.