French jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane

French jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane
Born into an aristocratic Parisian family, Victoire de Castellane has a rich history of the family. In particular, reigning princes, bishops, generals and noblemen of ten centuries. According to Castellane, she has been interested in making jewelry since childhood. At the age of 12, she created her first jewelry piece – a ring. For making it, she melted down her religious medals. Her uncle, Gilles Dufour, worked alongside with Karl Lagerfeld. With a passion for jewelry art in her genes and being led by noble roots, Victoire de Castellane started her career with Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel. Currently the talented and beautiful jewelry designer Victoire de Castellane lives in Paris and works as a creative director of Christian Dior’s fine jewelry division. Her beautiful works have been exhibited as a personal show in art galleries, such as Fleur d’exces and Gagosian Gallery. Victoire de Castellane launched Dior’s Haute Joaillerie department on January 1, 1998.

The inspiration for the talented jeweler are many things – the naivety of Technicolor, botanical motifs, butterfly wings, nature’s splendors, Hollywood and Bollywood, ballet-dancers, a woman’s curves and attitude, Japanese figurines. She plays with the barriers between natural and artificial, real and fake, naive and beautiful. She uses colorful gem stones, such as amethysts, opals, morganites, citrines, aquamarines, green beryls, etc.

Victoire de Castellane believes everything must be hand-made in Parisian workshops, nothing is mechanized. She uses gem stones of different colors – amethysts, morganites, citrines, aquamarines, green beryls.

French jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane

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