LV ICONS - Porte-Documents Voyage

Sharing with you some literature (a little bit of history matched with amusing fiction) on the stuff that dreams are made of-- the Icons of Louis Vuitton.


Kennedy Airport, New York, February 1989

Sitting back in the yellow chequered cab, on a seat with enough room for three other passengers, he clung firmly to his soft Porte-documents Voyage. The contract it contained would soon change the face of the entire business world. He had worked very little himself on this unprecedented merger, having simply been entrusted with tying up a few secondary questions, but it was he who had been given the responsibility of safely delivering the original documents. He caught sight of a street sign through the misted-up window. Two legendary words: Wall Street. His destiny was unfolding...


The Porte-documents Voyage was originally designed in 1854 as a cover for the cashmere lap rugs used by the drivers of the first automobiles, but its flat, rectangular shape lent itself perfectly to a wholly new function: protecting precious documents against the elements.



(The 11 posts included in the LV ICONS series are excerpts from the ©Louis Vuitton Icons look book released in September 2006; with Photographs by ©Thomas Lagrange, ©Laurent Bremaud, ©Vogue, ©Roger-Viollet, ©Agence France Presse and Words by ©Stephane Gerschel)