Thursday 11 December 2008

UDHR and article 19 HOW FREE IS OUR SPEECH!





Although not really a shopping trip Ecoboudoir and Pants to Poverty were part of an event that took place at the Purcell room at the South Bank Centre to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with particular focus on article 19.
As well as the flamboyant Ben Ramsden and his team I spied Van from Bourgeois Boheme and Sindhu from Devidoll and was that Thea from Natural Born Sellers, OMG !(for those of you not in the know a competing sales person on an ITV programme to find the best UK salesperson which I was forced to watch by my little man in the hope of improving my selling technique ! Ugh). The Pants to Poverty short involved catwalk, models, gas masks and a splash of nudity. The Latter was championed by a member of the audience at the excellent debate chaired by human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy. Although I don't really think that our hero 'from grain to groin' was really too perturbed. Once you've bared flesh and all at Kings Cross to get into the Guinness book of records, not sure nudity is the issue! All in all a good evening with excellent speeches and debate...