Today, Louis Vuitton is a luxury fashion label, a status symbol that usually hangs from a shoulder or elegantly dangles from a wrist by way of a leather logoed handbag. But rewind to 1835, and the name belonged to a man who left his home at the age of 14 and began walking 280 miles from eastern France to Paris. Upon arriving two years later, he worked as a box maker and packer before starting his own company in 1854, designing ergonomic trunks — or “specialty packing for fashion” as it was advertised — for the wandering elite…