British Vogue - 10.2019

(Amelia) #1
Ruby, sapphire,
garnet and diamond
earrings and ring.
Both price on request,
Dior Joaillerie. Dress,
to order, Dior Haute
Couture. Hair: Ramona
Eschbach. Make-up:
Tiziana Raimondo.
Nails: Anatole Rainey.
Model: He Cong

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n Victoire de Castellane’s imagination, jewels become
living, breathing creatures. “They are a little thing you
adopt and wear, and pass down to the next generation
with a piece of you living on inside them,” says Dior
Joaillerie’s creative director with characteristic joie de vivre.
The designer applies that same joy to Gem Dior, her latest
high jewellery collection. Marking 20 years at the Parisian
maison, her rainbow-hued gems in alternating cuts are
arranged with apparently random spontaneity, recreating the

crystalline structure of gemstones beneath the microscope


  • an approach De Castellane calls “abstract organic”. These
    exuberant creations are a long way from the staid universe of
    white diamonds and matching parures that dominated high
    jewellery when Bernard Arnault invited her to launch Dior
    Joaillerie in 1999. De Castellane’s is both a feminine and a
    feminist vision. “Jewellery used to be about men showing
    their power over women. Today women are buying jewels
    for themselves,” she smiles. “And that makes me happy.” n


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