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Leading the fight for your rights

Once she took on Mrs Thatcher; now Katharine Hamnett,the queen of the slogan T-shirt, is on a new mission, enraged by the abuse, as she sees it, of intellectual property rights. By Eleanor Cowie .

KATHARINE Hamnett is incensed. But for once the clothing designer and environmental campaigner is not exercised over the evils of the fashion industry, pesticide poisoning in cotton production or nuclear weapons.