If you were one of the million or so who marched in London on Saturday 15 February, you would have missed some fashion shows (including Paul Costelloe and Michiko Koshino on-schedule and Guilana Testino off-schedule) and the start of London Fashion Week. Last September, London's Mayor Ken Livingstone opened the official fashion proceedings, but on Saturday he was a bit busy along with Jesse Jackson and Miss Dynamite, addressing the rally in Hyde Park. Despite the cold (and it was freezing), creative protestors used their clothes to get the message across. T-shirts included Give Peace a Chance, Blair Out and Peace Not War. Unfortunately, the weather meant that many chose to wear their XL T-s over jumpers and jackets or wrap them around their necks as scarves. Hyde park was a heaving mass of people and there was a diverse range of protestors including grungy teenagers, skaters, goths, IT girl types with designer handbags and many British muslims. Sartorial highlights include a woman who decorated her jeans with 'Stop The War Blair C*unt', a beautiful denim jacket with a handstitched Stop The War slogan in patchwork, a man who wore a camo helmet on top of his baseball cap and the people who made peace statements out of muslim scarves.
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