Banksy has revealed that he designed the Union Jack stab-proof vest that British rapper Stormzy wore during his headline set at this year's Glastonbury festival.
The Grime artist began his set on the festival's Pyramid Stage wearing a stab-proof vest with a black and white Union Jack flag spray-painted on the front.
It was later revealed to be designed by British street artist Banksy.
"I made a customised stab-proof vest and thought ? who could possibly wear this" Stormzy at Glastonbury," Banksy wrote in an Instagram post, which pictured the star in the vest backstage.

 

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Stormzy became the first black British solo artist to headline Glastonbury in its 49-year history. "Last night I headlined Glastonbury in a stab-proof vest custom made by the greatest, most iconic living artist on planet earth, the one and only Banksy," said Stormzy in his own Instagram post.
Stormzy wore the vest as a comment on Britain's knife-crime crisis and racial inequality in the criminal justice system ? an issue he often speaks about publicly and addresses in his music.

 

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During the set he played a clip of a speech by Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy about black men and the justice system.
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