LOUIS VUITTON's new Moscow exhibition is the subject of controversy after the display angered Communist Party representatives. A spokesperson for the label was unable to comment.
The bone of contention is the venue - a giant, nine-metre-high replica of a vintage Vuitton trunk, situated in the city's Red Square - which some Russian politicians argue is too close to the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, who famously led the socialist Bolshevik Revolution, which resulted in the seizure of power from the Russian government and eventually the creation of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state.
"This is a sacred place for the Russian state," Sergei Obukhov, a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, told the Wall Street Journal. "There are some symbols that cannot be trivialised or denigrated."
Red Square has been used for commercial purposes before, including fashion shows, Christmas ice rinks and music concerts.
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