LVMH as a group had more than 250 stores in Japan. Some of them were stores opened as franchisees during the last decade. New generations of shops opened in Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo and elsewhere, revolutionizing the whole purchasing experience of luxury goods. The architecture of the stores had become part of the brand’s identity. A perfect illustration of this was the architecture of the Louis Vuitton building in Omotesando, Tokyo, built by Jun Aoki, which looked as if several trunks were piled up. Louis Vuitton had shifted towards a new approach in which the experience in a store would accord with the emotion brought out by the products.