PARIS — For Victoire de Castellane, Dior’s haute couture tradition is an infinite source of inspiration. Witness her most current selection, Dior Print, which accomplishes the specialized feat of transposing material styles this sort of as stripes, floral designs, checks and tie-dye on to a few-dimensional substantial jewelry parts.
The French trend household unveiled the line, which at 137 items is its greatest substantial jewelry collection to day, at a gala event at the Grand Hotel Timeo in Taormina, Sicily, on Saturday.
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Styles donning ivory-coloured attire intended by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s inventive director of womenswear, posed like Greek statues all through the cocktail part of the event. Supper, held on a terrace large in excess of the Mediterranean, was adopted by a runway display wherever monochrome attire set off ornate necklaces in the shape of colourful ribbons.
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For the duration of a fitting in Paris two weeks before the celebration, de Castellane reported she cherished the plan of showing her creations on reside styles.
“All of a sudden, the jewellery really comes into its own for the reason that it is worn, simply because the mild catches the models’ gestures — it’s alive. Insofar that we’re a couture dwelling that will make jewelry, there is no rationale not to mix the two. For me, it’s a no-brainer,” she stated.
Movement is at the coronary heart of her models, which represented a new obstacle for the house’s workshops in Paris, which ended up essential to adapt the dimension and environment of the stones to reproduce the print motifs in miniature on curved surfaces. “When ribbons undulate, the print ought to abide by,” the designer stipulated.
Interlocking ribbons in floral prints and rainbow-hued stripes of precious stones type the masterpiece necklace, which will come in three hues of gold and is articulated using a specialized strategy borrowed from watchmaking.
“I adore toying with the house codes in each and every collection. Since we’re a fashion home, I’ve played a whole lot with the movement of ribbons,” de Castellane stated. “We’ve under no circumstances done printed ribbons, and I imagined it was fun to blend in the unique motifs.”
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Other items are set all over stunning centre stones, like the 8.02-carat lilac sapphire from Madagascar on the pistil of the Dior Print Emerald necklace.
De Castellane blended the new layouts with versions on earlier collections, like the Dior Dior Dior line from 2018, which explored lace Tie & Dior, the 2020 assortment concentrated on textile dye effects, and her most current, Galons Dior, motivated by braids.
“I like to mix collections from different families due to the fact I imagine it also reveals clients that they can dwell together,” she discussed, noting that she reprised a cushion condition for a ring in a checked motif made of diamonds and sapphires.
Her playful touch was obvious in a diamond and emerald piece with a briolette center stone that she claimed appeared like it was “dipped in mint syrup.” Yet another showcased a sapphire centre stone, the blue spilling more than into an asymmetrical arrangement of diamonds and smaller sized sapphires. “I intended it as if the stone was on blotting paper. It is ‘leaking,’” she said with a smile.
In addition to seasonal collections, de Castellane generates a steady stream of a single-off models, which can be commissioned through the superior jewellery workshop that is now housed at Dior’s renovated flagship on Avenue Montaigne. “We make confident there are exceptional pieces arriving all 12 months long,” she claimed.
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