Louis vuitton packed luggage for wealthy Parisian families in the early 1800s. He started his rise to fame when the emperor Napoleon 3 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 manufacturing trunks for the traveling rich. One of his earliest inventions was luggage that was flat and that therefore could be easily stacked in railway carriages.