If new Louis Vuitton flagship store in Toronto at the height of luxury shopping?

Luxury retailer Louis Vuitton has a new home in Toronto - a luxury shopping empire light on Bloor Street West at Avenue Road, one of the most exclusive shopping streets in the country. Designed by Peter Marino, Louis Vuitton Maison Store replaced the original LV, which was later on Bloor Street since 1983. At 10,000 square meters, the new store, which is divided into men and women and made the world of the many properties of teak wood, white metal wall from floor to ceiling with flowers together and locking a palette of rich brown, caramel, peridot and mustard, is twice as large as the old home, and thus a wider range of products and services that BT has in Canada. Prada Outlet California These products and services is a "bag bar" men and defined areas for shoes, watches, luggage, purses, ties and accessories in the world of people, those who separated from the jewelry, shoes, clothes, sunglasses, handbags and watches Universe indian women. "We have to process two years ago," says Jean-Philippe Hecquet, vice president of the LV for Canada and Bermuda, said during a visit to the store last week. "We wanted a way to find something special to customers. Luxury Bloor Street is already there. With the addition of more space, we have put in place a level of complexity that is unique among other offerings in Toronto." The company, which began in Paris in 1854 as a worldwide manufacturer of luxury leather luggage, now 452 stores are only 15 of them (two in Canada), "Houses", an honor granted to only sites that unlike some other outlets offer presented. And the art on the walls - usually measured this difference by the range of available products and services. The new and enhanced memory in Toronto, for example, are two huge, hyper-realistic photographs of flowers cascading Vancouver by James Nizam. Oddly enough (or not) reflects their range of purple and green, the colors used by LV designer Marc Jacobs in his new fall ready-to-wear. Nizam images are an integral part, but other original pieces in a large glass window containing the main entrance floor rotates every three months. The first of them is Shary Boyle, the selection of Canada at the Venice Biennale in the 2013th Raising the touch of exclusivity is a private second floor studio offers high leather (or custom handbags), Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton North America, known as "the icing on the cake" of the new market. Toronto is one of the seven cities in which BT provides high leather, the others are New York, Paris, Milan, Shanghai, Taipei and Sydney. Presented during the visit last week Chapoulaud Floquet-eight different types of fine leather, a range of 26 colors and five shapes handbag, allowing more than 40,000 own pocket options. Custom handbags range in price from $ 8,000 to $ 60,000, depending on your skin and the equipment used. The practice of custom bags began with the namesake of the company, making in 1892 from the finest leather handbags began to women of high social standing outside his workshop in Asnières, on the outskirts of Paris where LV leather goods are still manufactured today. Toronto luxury customers participating in the program, select the range of colored skin and metal hardware. Design decisions are then to France, where the purse is handmade in Asnières and returned to Canada, usually delivered after six months of craftsmanship. How is it popular? "We have opened a sales almost to the minute we made our doors," said Hecquet. "Customers love that they now get to Toronto, what they saw in the other houses around the world. This product speaks for itself."