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Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton delivered an exceptional performance, driven by excellent momentum across all its product lines. The year featured a wealth of developments and creative collaborations, with revenue growth well balanced between iconic lines and new creations. While the Capucines model inspired new artists, giving birth to the Artycapucines collection, the immersive Louis Vuitton X exhibition in Los Angeles carefully retraced the long tradition of collaboration with artists and designers of all backgrounds that has shaped the Maison s history. In a show of its signature visionary innovation, Louis Vuitton invented a futuristic canvas that can display moving images on bags, and capped off the year with a groundbreaking partnership with an e-sport that has generated an unprecedented level of interest. Associated as always with an iconic location, Nicolas Ghesquière, Creative Director of Womenswear, presented his Cruise collection at JFK Airport s legendary TWA Flight Center in New York. Virgil Abloh breathed new life into the world of menswear with the launch of the Louis Vuitton Staples Edition line, which revisits men s wardrobe essentials; revisited a number of iconic leather goods models, including the Steamer, designed in 1901; and held the poetic runway show for his Spring/Summer 2020 collection on the Place Dauphine in Paris. The quality- focused evolution of its retail network continued, the main highlights of which were the inauguration of Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, for which Frank Gehry designed a fantastic glass vessel echoing the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the reopening of the Maison s New Bond Street store in London, metamorphosized by architect Peter Marino. The Maison continued to reinforce its manufacturing capacity with the opening of a leather goods workshop with BREEAM Very Good environmental certification in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France and the launch of operations at a new workshop near Dallas in Texas. Strengthening Louis Vuitton s partnership with UNICEF, which it has pursued for more than three years to help the world s most vulnerable children, employee volunteers traveled to the sites of initiatives to witness this work first hand and raise awareness on social media.