Pigeons get a makeover

'Rats with wings', 'vermin', 'pests', whatever you call them, pigeons haven't got the best image. Long overdue a makeover, artist Laurel Roth has done just that, realising their potential as style icons.

Roth calls his set of pimped pigeons “Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons” and has created them by hand carving mannequins and crocheting their individual coats. His collection includes the Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory Billed Woodpecker, and Carolina Parakeet.

Well, if you can clothe a dog surely you can clothe a pigeon. It would make Trafalgar Square a much brighter place anyway.