The exhibition in New York celebrates the best in British fashion and was a huge success when it opened earlier this year.

The animal rights campaigners have written to the museum asking them to remove the offending item because it sends out the wrong message.

Vogue online reported that PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said: "Displaying fur garments especially fur items that serve to advertise goods that visitors can purchase just a few blocks from the museum ..

It sends the message the it's somehow acceptable to torture and kill animals for mere 'fashion."

The museum curator Andrew Bolton said that the item had been partly designed to "reveal the moral discourse surrounding blood sports and fur fashions".