At Dior, A New Look at Vintage Lace

This week, Christian Dior is pulling out all the stops with its high jewelry presentation: The 65 jewels in “Dior Dior Dior,” a masterful lace-inspired homage to haute couture by Victoire de Castellane, count for only about a quarter of the 220-piece exhibition Dior is putting on at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris Couture clients will get a first look starting today, but the exhibition will linger on for public viewing, free of charge, from July 6–8. “Lace and plays of transparency have always been integral to the Dior vocabulary,” de Castellane said in an exclusive interview The house’s seemingly bottomless archives offered up treasures that proved ideal for adapting into jewelry, even if that meant pushing the atelier to the limit Though she never plays favorites, the designer admits the part she loves best is reinterpreting embellished lace in precious stones.

Take, for example, the two “Dior Dior Dior” rings . Source