Michael Burke with Louis Vuitton employee Christine Brosseau at the brand’s Sainte-Florence workshop. The luxury house’s historic atelier, which opened in 1859 in Asnières on the outskirts of Paris, remains closed.
Vuitton’s various workshops in Marsaz, Saint-Donat, Saint-Pourçain, Ducey and Sainte-Florence are making masks and prototypes, while the Issoudin and Condé workshops are making masks exclusively. About 10 percent of the workforce is back.” That’s why out of the 4,500, there’s only about 400 that are in those 12 sites. “We’re ramping up to make over 100,000 a week just at Vuitton,” he said. In a phone interview with WWD ahead of the visit, the executive said a total of 400 people were back at work across France, including those making masks in response to the French government’s call for the increased production of alternative nonsurgical masks to help in the battle against COVID-19. Michael Burke, chairman and chief executive officer of Louis Vuitton, on Wednesday visited the Sainte-Florence workshop in the Vendée department in the west of France, where as of Monday 115 out of 896 employees were back at work, including 22 producing a mix of disposable and recyclable masks. PARIS - As portions of French manufacturing gradually reboot from the coronavirus shutdown, Louis Vuitton has reopened 12 of its 16 leather goods production sites in the country with the aim of producing hundreds of thousands of masks for its staff and nearby retirement homes.
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