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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

Banksy calls on shoplifters to target London fashion store which used his artwork 'without asking'

Bristol street artist Banksy has issued an appeal to 'all shoplifters' to steal from a particular store in central London who he said had 'helped themselves' to his artwork without asking.

In a cheeky post on his official Instagram account, Banksy shared a photo of the shop window display at upmarket fashion store Guess in Regent Street, with an uncompromising message.

The window display showed four mannequins with clothes on in front of a large image of one of Banksy's most famous works called Love Is In The Air, better known as the Flower Thrower. The work, which shows a masked protester throwing a bunch of flowers instead of a petrol bomb or rock, was first painted by Banksy on the West Bank in Palestine, and has been repeated many times since.

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