Dior’s New Jewellery Collection Tie & DIOR is Inspired by Tie & Dye

We can all agree that we need a lot of colour and brightness and positivity in our lives. Enter Dior’s new jewellery collection – a range of bright colours and endless sparkle guaranteed to bring a smile to the hardest face.

Dior releases Tie&Dior jewellery collecgtion inspired by tie-dye craft
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Victoire de Castellane, artistic director of Dior jewellery, is the brain behind Tie & Dior, the luxury brand’s latest jewellery collection. It is her take on the vibrant tye-dye craft, one that fashion brands, as though in a collective rebellion against global happenings, are featuring more and more in their collections.

Dior releases Tie&Dior jewellery collecgtion inspired by tie-dye craft
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The Tie & DIOR collection is an exciting blend of coloured stones that create an impact with contrast. This exhibits itself clearly as in the delectable emerald ring surrounded by a burst of pink sapphires, tsavorite garnets, paraiba-type tourmaline, rubies and a pistachio cultured pearl. Or the pair of mismatched earrings – a de Castellane signature – where colour blocks of pink and blue sapphires, tsavorite garnets, paraiba-type tourmaline plus two gobstopper-size emeralds ooze from two pistachio coloured pearls.

The potpourri of colours pops further thanks to subtle white diamonds that edge each shade – a defining, sparkling outline but also a nod to white cloth or paper peeking out from below tie-dye.

Dior releases Tie&Dior jewellery collecgtion inspired by tie-dye craft
The pair of mismatched earrings. Image courtesy of Vogue

This is the first time that de Castellane has significantly used pearls in her 20 years at Dior. She has been a long-time fan of the ultra-classic stone, but Tie & Dior finally released her to use pearls in a more original way. Rakishly set off-centre, de Castellane’s pearls – in candy pinks, golden yellows, sherbet greens – seem almost haphazardly thrown onto her voluminous creations, clinging to the base of a necklace or jauntily resting on a ring. The stone – in essence, the tie-dye ink – offers an eye-catching contrast, its velvety finish colliding with the angular stones.

Dior releases Tie&Dior jewellery collection inspired by tie-dye craft
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While peppy, kaleidoscopic colours dominate, some pieces are more classical in style, such as a golden cultured pearl that sits among a fan of white diamonds cut in all manner of shapes and sizes, showcasing de Castellane’s knack for texture and volume. Or a ruby and diamond suite where white diamonds spread out from a central ruby stone, any hint of classicism disrupted by an oversized white pearl that feels almost randomly chucked on. It’s refreshing and ironic.

Dior releases Tie&Dior jewellery collection inspired by tie-dye craft
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The Tie & DIOR collection launched in July at a private client event in Shanghai, at the Amanyangyun resort some 50 miles outside the city.

Source: Vogue

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