Victoire de Castellane has been the creative director of Dior
Joaillerie since 1998.
Olivier Gabet is the director of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs
(MAD) in Paris.
"Spanning de Castellane’s colourful career at Dior so far, it is a
voyage through her ground-breaking designs from the neon-bright,
writhing, flower explosion of the Belladone Island collection
shown at the Orangerie Museum in Paris in 2007 to her witty
bejewelled skulls or the beautifully menacing Milly Carnivora
blooms. Divided into two sections, the first is an alphabetical
collection of her favourite words, concepts and ideas illustrated
with her kooky pencil sketches, often featuring Mr Christian Dior
himself. ‘C’ gives us carnivore, cocktail and crowns, a fitting
welcome to the wonderful world of Victoire. The second half is
dedicated to photographs of jewels which beam out from the glossy
black pages and is almost as good seeing the real thing." —
THEJEWELLERYEDITOR.COM
"She enchants with her jewelry and evokes an immediate response
that causes you to do a double-take and continue to examine the
details as more and more are revealed in each piece. Dior
Joaillerie: The Dictionary Of Victoire De Castellane By Victoire de
Castellane with text by Olivier Gabet (Rizzoli New York , release
date: December 2020) has captured all of this feeling and
more."
—FORBES.COM
"Jewelry designer Victoire de Castellane has been at the helm of
Dior Joaillerie since it began in 1998. Her whimsical taste melds
with unimaginably magnificent jewels with fantasy and nature
inspiring the collections. The book starts with a dictionary that
takes you through the alphabet according to Dior. It consists of
158 words defined and each letter of the alphabet illustrated by
Victoire, and over 300 images of her mesmerizing creations. It's an
Alice in Wonderland meets Secret Garden picture book—the ideal gift
for any sparkle chaser." — MEETTHEJEWELERS.COM
“As a child, I loved dictionaries,” and so begins this spirited
book, a sort of autobiography in words and pictures of Victoire de
Castellane.. de Castellane, who has been designing jewelry for the
House of Dior for more than 20 years, offers bon mots, musings and
sage advice in a riff on the alphabet. A is for asymmetry, which
“is much more difficult than symmetry”; T is “trompe l’oeil,
which “proves that realism does not prevent imagination,”; and
perhaps best of all, N is for “no”: “A word I never heard in our
jewelry ateliers for everything is possible there.”...There follows
a word-free display of de Castellane’s rings, bracelets, necklaces
and earrings—jewelry in all its colorful musings and imagination.
At no surprise there is a feeling for texture and movement in her
personal collection, a fitting nod to Dior’s importance and legacy.
de Castellane fuses gemstones with fashion in a way the great
couturier would doubtless embrace." —NATURAL DIAMOND COUNCIL
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