Athens angry with British Museum after fashion show in front of Parthenon friezes. A fashion show at the British Museum during London Fashion Week has in fact aroused the diplomatic wrath of the Greek authorities.
For Athens, every opportunity is good to remind London - and anyone who will listen - that the Greek capital intends to have the statues. A British lord – Elgin – seized the famous sculptures before the creation of modern Greece, with the more or less explicit agreement of the Ottoman authorities, then masters of the region.