Victoire de Castellane's Dior Jewel Box

For her new fine jewelry collection for Dior, Victoire de Castellane created a giant jewelry box and filled it with some pretty amazing bijoux. I stopped by to see it on Monday morning. Victoire was receiving journalists up on the third floor of the Dior couture house on the Avenue Montaigne. The scale of her jewelry is so incredible, and then there is her fantastical imagination. The first thing she pointed out were two rows of enormous tourmalines the size of walnuts in pink or green. They are called "La Bague" and have those words written in diamonds around the setting. Victoire was wearing a knuckleduster with a voodoo-style skull on it, presumably carved out of Onyx. The most amazing part of this collection, though are the "Idylle aux Paradis" bracelets that can turn into brooches. Inspired by places like Fiji, Valparaiso, Borneo and the gardens of Kyoto, they have tiny animals, fish, creatures carved out of coral. My favorite one was the "Cyclade" which had a turquoise opal as the Mediterranean sea and a coral fish swimming around it. When I asked Victoire if she had traveled to all of these exotic destinations she just laughed and shook her fringe of hair.