I found this great little example about LV !! It is in the chapter titled "New-Product Developement and Life-Cycle Strategies" *gag*, I know!
"Thunk. Thunk. Thunk. Behind a locked door in the basement of Louis Vuitton's elegant Paris headquarters, a mechanical arm hoists a brown-and-tan handbag a half-meter off the floor--then drops it. The bag, loaded with an 3.5-km weight, will be lifted, and dropped, over and over again, for four days. This is Vuitton's test labratory, a high-tech torture chamber for its fabled luxury goods. Another piece of lab equiptment bombards the handbags with ultra-violet rays to test resistance to fading. Still another tests zippers by tugging them open and shutting them 5000 times. There's even a mechanized mannequin hand, with a Vuitton charm bracelet around its wrist, being shaken vigorously to make sure none of the charms fell off."
This really put into perspective the quality being LV! Those bags take quite a hit for us!:boxing:
"Thunk. Thunk. Thunk. Behind a locked door in the basement of Louis Vuitton's elegant Paris headquarters, a mechanical arm hoists a brown-and-tan handbag a half-meter off the floor--then drops it. The bag, loaded with an 3.5-km weight, will be lifted, and dropped, over and over again, for four days. This is Vuitton's test labratory, a high-tech torture chamber for its fabled luxury goods. Another piece of lab equiptment bombards the handbags with ultra-violet rays to test resistance to fading. Still another tests zippers by tugging them open and shutting them 5000 times. There's even a mechanized mannequin hand, with a Vuitton charm bracelet around its wrist, being shaken vigorously to make sure none of the charms fell off."
This really put into perspective the quality being LV! Those bags take quite a hit for us!:boxing: