What to wear to a book about fashion book launch. I don't know but found myself wearing a yellow jumper from the ubiquitous Uniqlo. Hardly cutting edge fashion! Was I a perpetrator of fast fashion? A drab - despite the blaring yellow - conformist?

The psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose implores us to channel a punk DIY ethos into fashion. If a high end fashion boutique can re-engineer a man's shirt into an amazing hat, what is to stop us, she asks. Dig out your safety pins.

In the picture above I'm standing with two men who seemed to have imbibed this view. I don't know the man to my right but his hair and make up made me marvel at his imagination. To my left is Martin Creed, the artist, and most of his clothing appears to be home made, from simple materials, like paper and card (such as his handkerchief and hat). He wears a green dart as a broach. Even Jimmy the dog is unconventional as he is a vegetarian.

I feel embarrassed at my anti punk, anti-imagination jumper. But yet I don't have the courage or even desire to dress in cardboard and paper or paint my face. This manifesto is one I will be re-reading and digesting.