Diorexquis High Jewelry Collection
This spring, the Artistic Director of Dior Joaillerie, Victoire de Castellane, has conceived an unprecedented line inspired by three emblematic, founding themes of Dior's identity: enchanted landscapes, delicate bouquets, and magical balls. A dazzling triptych, in turn recounting the couturier's love for the beauty of the plant world and his fascination with the splendor of extraordinary parties. A series of fabulous tableaux and moments of grace, a marvelous homage to nature.
Photo @ Adrien Dirand
Vibrant Tableaus
As night fell, twenty-five haute couture silhouettes specially dreamed up by Maria Grazia Chiuri were revealed in an enchanting sparkle, alongside the reflecting water. The delicate nobility of the velvets – crafted with excellent savoir-faire, in forest green, plum, yellow ochre and gold – echoed the intense colors of the stones, while the short corolle dresses and ravishing Mille-fleurs embroidery complemented the exquisite floral jeweled odes created by Victoire de Castellane. A majestic firework display brought this oneiric choreography to a magnificent close, a moment suspended in time, a pure instant of grace.
Couture Nature
Featuring a bold interplay of volumes and layers of gemstones – finely sculpted on mineral backgrounds hemmed with diamonds – the designs are like a series of extraordinary stories, magnificently portraying nature and its transformations. The jewelry thus evokes the passage of time following the rhythm of the seasons: the purity of winter, with its icy splendors flourishing in sumptuous finery; the effervescence of spring, transposed into the blossoming flora that punctuates certain ensembles; or the joy of sunny days, represented in the brilliance of the shimmering stones that adorn several scintillating sets. An exquisite surprise, a necklace, ring and elegant earrings capture, in irresistible scenes, the magic of those fleeting moments where fantasy embrace reality.
Virtuoso Alliances
The fruit of priceless savoir-faire, these pieces encapsulate all the virtuoso mastery of the Ateliers, exemplified in particular by the “opale doublet” technique, which consists of mounting a layer of opal on another stone – onyx or mother-of-pearl – to producing bewitching monochromes reminiscent of the complex nuances of the sky or water. A succession of expert, exquisitely precise gestures, thanks to which Victoire de Castellane's ingenuous inventivity is brought to life. The plique-à-jour method takes excellence to new heights, forming clusters of a thousand sparkling colors thanks to the use of lacquer – Dior Joaillerie's signature – working into transparency what seems like a miniature stained glass window through which light streams sublimely. A homage to dreams, fusing exceptional expertise and spellbinding poetry.
© Sophie Carre