Victoire de Castellane has the merit of surprising without limitations to the aesthetics of her high jewelry. As is now tradition, Dior presented its couture collections in Paris with a view of the summer. The high jewelery collection this year is called Print. Like the verb to print in English. The creative director’s idea seems…
The real drama is that of human lives lost in vain, of overwhelmed lives, of lives that will never be the same. But the war in Ukraine also causes a smaller, much smaller, but not irrelevant, drama related to jobs, in the West and in Russia, which will be lost to a stupid aggression. Both…
A galon, in French, indicates a strip of interwoven fabric used as an ornament for clothes or furnishings. For example, stripes that are a hallmark of the ranks worn on the military uniform. From this sign the imagination of the creative director of Dior Joaillerie, Victoire de Castellane, has created the new high jewelery collection.…
The wind rose blows on billboards with British model and actress Cara Delevingne. More than a meteorological indication, however, it is the Rose des Vents collection by Dior, of which Cara Delevingne is the official face. As a brand ambassador, Delevingne wears new pieces from the Rose des Vents collection, a fine jewelry collection designed…
The roses in the gardens bloom in spring. And also those of high jewelery. The roses, in this case, are those of Dior and its artistic director Victoire de Castellane, who created RoseDior, a new collection of 54 pieces of high jewelery that arrives just ten years after the Bal des Roses collection. The recurring…
x The Gem Dior 2021 collection by Victoire de Castellane amazes those who expected from the artistic director of the Maison a jewelry line that is cousin to last year’s. But no, the designer has changed her feeling. And the surprise remained intact, because Victoire de Castellane’s inventiveness is always cheerful, despite the difficult times…
Wear different earrings: you can. Here are the tips on how to wear different earrings with success ♦ Have you lost half of a pair of your favorite or precious earrings and sadly wondered what to do with the surviving earring? Well, you are in luck. On the red carpet, there have been many unmatched…
Dior also for winter 2020 has the face of Cara Delevingne. The 29-year-old British model is still an ambassador for Dior’s Rose des Vents jewelery collection, designed by artistic director Victoire de Castellane. The collection, launched a few years ago, is now enriched with new pieces inspired by Christian Dior’s passion for divinatory art. Dior,…
What if the influencers, men or women, weren’t all little angels? It is known that the varied army of influencers, usually beautiful girls or self-proclaimed experts on something, aims to make money by advertising, more or less hidden from the products they show on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and the like. But it is also…
There are people who mark the history of jewelry. One of these is Victoire de Castellane, creative director of Dior. Now a great book published by Rizzoli Usa (Dior Joaillerie: The A to Z of Victoire de Castellane, 349 pages, written together with Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris), retraces…
The Dior palette is filled with colors with its new high jewelery collection which is simply called Gem Dior. It is a particularly important collection, as always sprung from the mind of the creative director of Dior jewelry, Victoire de Castellane, because it celebrates the French Maison’s 20 years of haute joaillerie. As the name…
The jewels inspired by the sea: perfect to be worn in August, but even better in the other months of the year ♦ The month of August, in the northern hemisphere (ie the one that goes from the North Pole to the equator), coincides with the hottest month, often destined for all or part to…
Gem Dior, a high jewelry collection for 20 years as creative director of Victoire de Castellane ♦ ︎ In the world of luxury there are examples of creatives who remain at the helm of a Maison for a long time. They are few, though. Victoire de Castellane is part of this restricted Olympus. The creative…
All you want to know about the most fashionable stone: the tourmaline. Green, blue or red, is the gem of the moment. Here is a quick tour guide ♦ Often confused with other stones, tourmaline is characterized by a wide range of hues and shades. No coincidence that the name comes from a Sinhalese word…
A new collection of high jewelry by the Maison: lace, gold and stones with Dior Dior Dior ♦ ︎ After the gardens of Versailles and the baroque decorations of the great residence of the French kings, here is another noble inspiration from Victoire de Castellane, who leads Dior’s fine jewelry with great expertise. The new…
At the court of Versailles with the high jewelery by Dior, to search among its secrets ♦ ︎ Versailles is not just a destination for tourists, but a part of French culture and History, written in capital letters. And it is also culture, art, fantasy. Finally, it is also one of the topical places around…
In Turin an exhibition dedicated to 200 jewels designed by Gianfranco Ferré ♦ ︎ Gianfranco Ferré was not only a great designer, but also a great inventor of accessories. Widely used in parades as a complement to dresses, Ferré’s bijoux, which disappeared ten years ago at 63, have the same style as the designer, who…
Christian Dior’s fashion jewelry on display and auction online from Sotheby’s Paris ♦ ︎ Dior is one of the great brands of fashion, but also of jewelery. Now it also becomes the first Maison to go online in a sale of Sotheby’s France. The auction concerns a private collection of Christian Dior Jewelery and will…
High Jewelery: Versailles gardens interpreted by Dior. Images ♦ ︎ Assuming not to put yourself in the shoes of Maria Antonietta (finished on the guillotine) it is legitimate to put yourself in the shoes of a queen if you can wear the new pieces of high jewelery signed by Dior. The Versailles Palace was the…
Dior’s Rose des Vents blows again and welcomes new colors and pieces ♦ The Rose des Vents continues to blow in one direction: the addition of new pieces to the collection that Dior’s artistic director, Victoire de Castellane, launched in 2015. The jewelery line is inspired, as is well known, to the founder’s story The Maison,…