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Source: The Telegraph
Dame Vivienne Westwood used a London Fashion Week show held at the Foreign Office to declare a message of support for Julian Assange.
By Martin Beckford, Home Affairs Editor
16 Sep 2012
The veteran British fashion designer handed out T-shirts bearing her photo and the slogan Im Julian Assange to models and celebrities in the front row.
Her move will be seen as provocative because the show was held in the headquarters of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, off Whitehall, which is caught in a diplomatic stand-off over the WikiLeaks founders extradition.
The model Jade Parfitt was photographed wearing one of the pro-Assange T-shirts during the event on Sunday afternoon.
Lorraine Candy, the editor-in-chief of Elle UK magazine, posted a picture of the model online, together with the message: Jade in Assange supporter Tshirt V Westwood has designed! It's going to be controversial show at foreign office!
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9546467/Vivienne-Westwood-uses-London-Fashion-Week-to-declare-support-for-Assange.html
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