The Luggage Language
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“Show me your luggage and I will tell you who you are!” declared the 1921 Louis Vuitton publicity. As our bags travel with us,fake oakelys, they incidentally become a souvenir of the journeys we make and how we make them. From the turn of last century until 1960, luggage spoke even more eloquently than today, using a rich vocabulary of colourful hotel stickers which were fixed upon client’s suitcases by the hotels themselves for advertising purposes.These hotel stickers became renowned and eventually inspired a myth about a secret luggage language shared by porters and bellboys across Europe. It was believed that the position of one of these advertising stickers betrayed whether or not the owner of the said luggage was generous in tipping and whether they were an experienced traveler or not. This suspicion was not unfounded, as during the same period, the arrangement of a stamp on the envelope of a seemingly banal correspondence could efficiently communicate the feelings of one lover to another, right under the nose of oblivious relatives.Gaston-Louis Vuitton,nike free run, the grandson of Louis had a private collection of over 3000 hotel stickers which he fondly referred to as mini-posters. It was Gaston who revealed the truth about this said ‘luggage language’,cheap oakleys sunglasses, proclaiming that the communication was in fact made by discrete chalk markings in the form of lines and circles in the corner of trunks and cases and not by the hotel stickers themselves. Regardless of the truth behind this secret communication, today these stickers speak to us nostalgically of the old ways of travelling and in turn, pay homage to some of the great hotels of the world.


Louis Vuitton NeAr_Louis_Vuitton_01_Luggage_WM4 image 2011-12-20T18:57:00.137Z Louis Vuitton recently released 30 hotel labels/postcards carefully selected from Gaston-Louis’ private collection of 3000 as a collector’s boxed set,nike free run 3.



























































































































































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