Mikhail Gorbachev advertises Louis Vuitton bags
The Vuitton ad, however, is part of a campaign to emphasize the company’s heritage in luggage and travel accessories. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the ads include other celebrities using Vuitton bags: Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf cuddling in a hotel room, their bags not yet unpacked; Catherine Deneuve resting on a trunk in front of a steaming locomotive; and Mr. Gorbachev in the back of a car with a duffel bag on the seat next to him. Of the group, Mr. Gorbachev appears the least comfortable. He is holding on to a door handle, as if the bag contained polonium 210.
“Take a look at gray!” she says in the first installment, which sounds a tad like a spoof of Diana Vreeland. “Always chic, always right, and always, always mandatory!”
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October 9th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
[...] is the latest in a series featuring the likes of Keith Richards, Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola and Mikhail Gorbachev. Vuitton parent LVMH says the classics-oriented campaign has been getting good [...]