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Gorbachev in Vuitton ads

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From the Associated Press

Move over, Scarlett Johansson. Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton.

The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign for the French luxury label, along with Steffi Graf and her husband, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve, the company said Thursday.

Shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, the ads focus on travel -- a “core value” for the company that started in 1854 as a trunk maker, the statement said.

Gorbachev is featured in a car, a Vuitton bag at his side and the Berlin Wall in the background. Graf and Agassi are shown snuggling in a hotel room bed. A vampy Deneuve sits perched on a Vuitton suitcase in a foggy train station -- or is it a movie set?

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The campaign -- which is to run alongside more traditional fashion ads that in past seasons have featured Johansson -- will appear in magazines in September, Vuitton said.

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