Today in luxury marketing:
Louis Vuitton's pen and paper push
Louis Vuitton pored over a wide swath of literary lore - from the color of ink used by 17th century French novelists to the trunk Ernest Hemingway used to lug his typewriter - in readying its latest product volley: an expanded range of writing instruments and paper products, per WWD.
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