{"id":280,"date":"2007-11-04T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/gorbatschow-louis-vuitton-kommunikationsguerilla\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T12:46:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T10:46:58","slug":"gorbatschow-louis-vuitton-kommunikationsguerilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/gorbatschow-louis-vuitton-kommunikationsguerilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorbatschow \/ Louis Vuitton \/ Kommunikationsguerilla?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2007\/10\/hidden_louis_vuitton_ad_messag.html\">nymag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.your-me.com\/debranding\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/grobachev.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"310\" alt=\"grobachev.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.your-me.com\/debranding\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/30_vuitton_lg.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"358\" alt=\"30_vuitton_lg.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>10\/31\/07<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out. Well, we just now happened to take a closer look at that material, and Ho \u2026 lee \u2026 crap. It&#8217;s a Russian book or magazine, strategically posed so that the title is upside-down but readable: \u201cLitvinenko&#8217;s Murder \u2014 They Wanted to Give Up a Suspect for $7,000.\u201d Litvinenko, of course, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Litvinenko\">Russian ex-spy<\/a> whose death \u2014 by polonium-laced sushi \u2014 has been widely attributed to Putin&#8217;s goons. We have no idea what the business with the $7,000 is (maybe it&#8217;s the price of the bag?), and nor do we want to know! The very fact of Litvinenko&#8217;s name in the middle of the meticulously composed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annie_Leibovitz\">Annie Leibovitz<\/a> shot is enough of a jaw-dropper. Is Gorby sending the world secret messages through luggage ads? \u2014Michael Idov<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via nymag 10\/31\/07 Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out. Well, we just now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}