For its 4th participation in La Biennale Paris, Dior Joaillerie unveils its high jewelry collection: Archi Dior.
I wanted to create each piece as Christian Dior’s gowns were designed, as if the jewels were sculpted, ruffled, pleated, belted and draped fabrics. – Victoire de Castellane
Couture is all about construction, and Christian Dior never ceased to conceive his dresses as rigorously structured fabric edifices. Scaffolded in the House’s workshops, built and assembled piece by piece with the utmost care, each collection was an opportunity to create a new architecture: from Corolle in 1947 to Verticale in 1950, via Zig-Zag, Ailée and Trompe-l’oeil.
In jewelry, too, each piece is a precious edifice built stone by stone by the finest Parisian jewelers. It’s this idea of architectural creation, this infinitely Dior spirit – “Archi Dior”, that inspired Victoire de Castellane for her latest haute joaillerie collection.
Each piece in the collection borrows the name of an iconic line or dress, adapting the particular movement of fabrics to the language of jewelry. Precious pleats offer their silhouettes belted with jewels; one reveals a diamond ribbon as it passes, another swirls slightly to reveal the flounces of a ruby underskirt.
Some pieces imitate the movement of the bottom of a dress as it rises to the rhythm of a woman’s steps. These are jewels that parade like ball gowns. – Victoire de Castellane
Jewelry inspired by the Corolle line appears in volutes of diamonds and emeralds, then in superimpositions of pink skirts. The Bar cuff and ring are precious tributes to the Maison’s iconic tailor. Then come the exuberant volumes and incredible color gradations of the Ailée line, the yellow diamond-studded drape of the Envol ring, the swirl of multicolored stones of the Trompe-l’oeil line and the complex geometric lines of the Zig-Zag jewelry. Victoire de Castellane transmutes fabric into precious stones, and Haute Couture into Haute Joaillerie.
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