Dior paid tribute to ballet icon Rudolf Nureyev

Dior paid tribute to ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev with a menswear collection inspired by stage costumes and presented on an elaborate moving stage.
Designer Kim Jones told AFP he was influenced by the "spirit of the spectacle" to create a stage outfit that could create an "extravaganza at home".
Under the rocking brass and string instruments of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, the models appeared on a steel-gray stage that finally rose in revolving platforms like a giant music box.
Jones said he was paying tribute to his uncle Colin Jones, a classical dancer and photojournalist who took a rare intimate series of photographs of Nureyev, the Soviet dancer who defected to the West in the 1960s and until his death in 1993 .is perhaps the most famous classical dancer of his generation.
The collection included some hints of Nureyev's costumes and personal style in some of the baggy trousers and turbans.
There were also more dazzling outfits, with sequins and bare tops, while other styles saw boyish long socks and shorts above the bare knees.
Tailored kimonos mingled with Jones's signature suits, with wrap closures and double lapels.
Jones said he envisioned "a meeting between practicality and magnificence that is both functional and poetic." /BGNES