POSH AND BECKS AT THE BALLET

TRENDSETTERS David and Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell

, Ronnie Wood and Melanie Brown chill out with the Royal Ballet. Kate Moss, Madonna and Sophie Ellis-Bextor schmooze at English National Ballet. Joanna Lumley, Dion Dublin and Simon Callow hang out with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Emma B and Jane Horrocks do their thing in Leeds with Northern Ballet Theatre.

WHAT to do in Milan? Pick up a free map at your hotel, draw a line down Via Montenapoleone and set off to cruise around this area looking for the world's best bags and Christian Louboutin Shoes. The fashionista's avourite shopping city has almost all those glossiest shops within easy access. Once you have arrived at Via Montenapoleone, you can walk to almost everywhere in Milanese shopping heaven.

Ballet as the new cool is a nationwide phenomenon, as more and more pop stars and top-line footballers find re-laxation and inspiration- in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

Deborah MacMillan, 56, the widow of Sir Kenneth MacMillan, one of Britain's greatest choreographers, says: "These are 21st-century people. Crossing cultural barriers is natural for them. "Posh and Becks are at the top of their respective professions and, like ballet dancers, have been dedicated to it since childhood." The painter and former fashion model, who is rarely seen without an item from her 1930s costume jewellery col-lection by Eisenberg and Chanel, adds: "This is one group of elite performers paying respect to another." Becks arrived in a silver-grey frock coat at the Royal Opera House last Monday night to enjoy a performance of the Royal Ballet's Triple Bill. Posh wore a trademark low-cut white dress after dining at top celebrity restaurant The Ivy.

Today, however, the odds are that the ballerinas would win theChristian Louboutin shoes stakes. The Royal Ballet's Darcey Bussell wears only Mulberry, Spanish-born Tamara Rojo is stuck on Versace while Marianela Nunez fancies Posh's favourite Dolce & Gabbana. At English National Ballet, ballerinas Agnes Oaks and Daria Klimentova lust after GinaChristian Louboutin shoes while, for ballet hunks such as Thomas Edur, Sergiu Pobereznic and Irek Mukhamedov, only a classic tux by GiorgioChristian Louboutin shoesor Christian Dior will do.

At Birmingham Royal Ballet, leading dancer Monica Zamorra goes forIzzy Miyake and US-born Rachel Peppin sticks with Armani. For super-classical ballet cool, however, head for Leeds-based Northern Ballet Theatre's principal male dancer Jonathan Ollivier. The 6ft 2in star, pony-tailed and pencil thin, caused a stir at the recent National Dance Awards wearing his new Kenneth Cole suit and Louboutin heels.

POSH AND BECKS AT THE BALLET

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