This week on Dezeen, the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, hit the headlines as Stormzy wore a stab-proof vest designed by Bansky and Dezeen covered some of the event's best sets and installations.
British grime artist Stormzy opened his headline set wearing a stab-proof vest with a black and white Union Jack flag spray-painted on the front, designed by British street-artist Banksy.
Stormzy "took south London to the farm" for Glastonbury set
Dezeen also spoke to the creative directors behind Stormzy's headline set, which referenced the rapper's south London roots with visual nods to Croydon's Brutalist architecture.
Chris "Bronski" Jablonski and Amber Rimell explained that they wanted to "take south London to the farm", creating a stage that would make Stormzy "feel at home". Block9 reveals "monster" IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019
The Dezeen studio team attended the festival to document some of the best stages and installations at this year's event in a captioned movie.
Highlights include a full-size recreation of a British seaside pier by artist Joe Rush and the monolithic IICON stage and outdoor dance-arena designed by London creative partnership Block9.
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