His homes are peppered with pieces by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol, and he is the owner of the largest collection of Virginia Woolf books and letters in the world - 21,000 pieces and counting. So it's unsurprising the aesthete enjoys melding the world of art with his other great love: fashion.
For his latest spring/summer collection that he showed in Paris yesterday, Jones worked with the South African ceramicist Hylton Nel. The octogenarian is best known for his plates, pots, figures and vases featuring whimsical illustrations and satirical text.
For Dior they appeared to have been put through a supersizing kiln, with six gargantuan sculptures, including a nonplussed cat and a nude female torso fused with a feline head, dotted around the vast catwalk.
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