We will continue to report on London Fashion Week, despite the risks fast fashion poses to the planet

Journalists and publishers, no different to consumers or politicians, have to practise the art of the possible, and so it is with the climate emergency

Harper Silin in a Christian Lacroix-designed jumper at London Fashion Week on Friday (Isabel Infantes/PA)

London Fashion Week is traditionally a showcase for the very best of British talent, a colourful and entertaining distraction from grimmer news items (no shortage of those), and a way for websites, newspapers and magazines to fill otherwise dull pages with arresting and thought-provoking images. Sometimes, as with the famous slogan T-shirts designed by Katharine Hamnett, the catwalks can be a bit political.

Now, however, fashion and London Fashion Week itself are under attack. Fast fashion has already been identified as an enemy of the planet, wasting precious resources on here-today-chucked-away-tomorrow clothes, and Extinction Rebellion are promising an “RIP London Fashion Week Funeral March” on Tuesday: “We call on all citizens, including the industry itself, to demand an end to London Fashion Week.”

Taken entirely at face value, the response to the Extinction Rebellion rallying call would be to simply ignore London Fashion Week and, for that matter, ban any coverage of fashion and eschew fashion advertising as well.