Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
21 Feb 2023 Acquired LVMH
“I believe the position was called the royal malletier, I think. It was like a royal appointment.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 21 Feb 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- LVMH
Transcript context
…No, that's exactly right. Louis Vuitton started way back in the 1800s, literally the guy, Louis Vuitton, making trunks for basically royalty, like Napoleon III's wife, the Empress Eugenie. The stuff that he would make and actually, not only make but also pack because your trunk maker was also your trunk packer, because you had women packing their clothes like corsets and all the crazy stuff you had to jam in and not destroy your clothes. I believe the position was called the royal malletier, I think. It was like a royal appointment. To your point, it used to literally exclusively be for royals. Who else could just travel around the countryside and have a trunk where they're loading up all of their goods? He went from making them for Napoleon III's wife to Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Finally, this trickles down to not just royalty, but aristocrats.…
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