Louis packed luggage for wealthy Parisian families in the early 1800s. He started his rise to fame when the emperor Napoleon III appointed him to pack the dresses of his wife, the Empress Eugenie. Louis Vuitton actually started his business in Paris in 1854 by designing and manufarturing truns for the traveling rich . One of his earliest invention was luggage that was flat and that therefore could be easily stacked in railway carriages.