There are few designers in high jewellery who can strike the balance between fantasy and craftsmanship quite like Victoire de Castellane. For nearly three decades, she’s shaped Dior Joaillerie into a space where colour, technique and imagination take equal footing. With Diorexquis, her latest and most ambitious high jewellery collection, that vision sharpens into a seasonal rhythm — 163 pieces that travel through nature, time and mood.

A Setting Steeped in Dior

The collection was unveiled earlier this year at Château de La Colle Noire, Christian Dior’s former retreat in Provence. The setting wasn’t accidental. De Castellane has long tapped into the maison’s history — not to replicate it, but to expand it. Draped across the gardens and halls of the estate, Diorexquis felt right at home: floral, theatrical, at ease with both the natural world and the couture runway.

Imagery courtesy of Dior — showcasing highlights from the Diorexquis high jewellery collection by Victoire de Castellane

Opals, Enamel and Imagination

The collection moves through four loosely interpreted seasons. Spring’s romantic bouquets give way to shimmering summer lakes, autumn’s golden light and the frosted stillness of winter. These aren’t literal interpretations — they’re emotional ones.

Standout techniques include opal doublets layered on mother-of-pearl and onyx to create shifting plays of light, and plique-à-jour enamel used like stained glass to let the light move through the jewellery itself. There’s poetry in the palette — soft pastels, icy blues, floral pinks and stormy greys — all carefully arranged across an expansive material set of sapphires, diamonds, tourmalines, spinels and more.

Imagery courtesy of Dior - An opal doublet necklace from Dior’s Diorexquis collection — layered light, movement and emotion captured in gemstone form

Couture, But Make It Gemstone

Presented alongside Maria Grazia Chiuri’s haute couture collection, Diorexquis doesn’t sit in the shadows — it converses with the clothes. You see it in the structure of the necklaces, the sculptural earrings, the sense that every piece has its own silhouette. De Castellane’s work is often described as whimsical, but there’s nothing slight about it. These are pieces built with rigour, anchored by fine craftsmanship and Dior’s atelier savoir-faire.

Opal and diamond ring and brooch from Dior’s Diorexquis collection. Imagery courtesy of Dior

The Jewels Club Take

Diorexquis is high jewellery as narrative: layered, tonal, precise — and unmistakably Dior. It reminds us that storytelling in jewellery doesn’t need to shout. It can shimmer quietly, change tone with the light, and still hold the room.

A closer look at Dior’s Diorexquis high jewellery — gemstone colour and sculptural form in perfect harmony. Imagery courtesy of Dior

Discover more

View the full Diorexquis collection at Dior.com and follow @diorjewelry on Instagram for behind-the-scenes looks at the maison’s latest high jewellery chapter.

Scroll the product gallery below to explore highlights from Dior’s Diorexquis collection — opals, enamel and diamonds in full seasonal splendour.