Loewe figurehead dies
02/03/2016
Grandfather of the leathergoods company’s founder, Enrique Loewe Knappe ran the company from the 1930s until the 1980s. He took responsibility first for stabilising the company’s business in Spain in the years following the country’s civil war, opening its iconic store on Madrid’s Gran Vía in 1939, the year the conflict ended.
In the 1960s, he took Loewe overseas for the first time, opening boutiques in the UK and Japan.
Loewe became part of the LVMH group in 1996.
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