Fashion house
It’s often said that Paris is the home of fashion. And there’s plenty of truth to that, as the thousands of fashionistas who clamour to see the runways in the French capital each season — pandemic permitting — can no doubt attest. But if you’re looking for a location that punches above its weight when it comes to its place in fashion history, you'll need look slightly further afield. Specifically eight kilometres further afield, to a village called Asnières-sur-Seine.
It was here in 1859 that a budding designer named Louis Vuitton founded a workshop specialising in handcrafting rectangular trunks that would eventually transform his company from
