Dior paid homage to ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev on Friday, with a menswear collection inspired by stage costumes and presented on an elaborate moving set.
Designer Kim Jones said he was influenced by “the spirit of performance” to create stage-wear that could create “an extravaganza at home”.
To the stirring brass and strings of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”, the models emerged in a steel-grey stage that ultimately rose into spinning platforms like a giant music box.
Jones said he was paying tribute to his uncle Colin Jones, a classical dancer and photojournalist who produced a rare intimate series of photos of Nureyev, the Soviet dancer who defected to the West in the 1960s and was arguably the most famous classical dancer of his generation up to his death in 1993.
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