Banksy's stab-proof vest worn by Stormzy at Glastonbury in line for design award

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Banksy for Stormzy’s headline show at Glastonbury is in the running for a design of the year award.The vest featuring a Union flag by the notoriously secretive street artist is one of 74 nominees for the annual exhibition and awards celebrating the best in cutting-edge design.It faces competition from innovations including a self-sanitising door handle and a memorial for a glacier melted by climate change.Banksy said the vest, made from police equipment, was his take on the traditional John Bull waistcoat which emerged in the 1700s as a symbol of patriotism and has been the target of satirists ever since.It was described by the anonymous artist as being “capable of stopping bullets up to .45 calibre and is fully stab proof, yet not machine.