At cocktail hour, guests donned black tie and gathered in the terraced gardens of the nearby Grand Hotel Timeo for champagne, dinner, and gold-hued pyrotechnics, plus a selfie or two with de Castellane. In the distance, a fiery streak of lava on Mount Etna only heightened the sense of drama.
The evening marked the second in a string of major events hosted by the Parisian house in far-flung destinations: On May 24th, Kim Jones showed his resort 2023 men’s collection in Los Angeles; Maria Grazia Chiuri will show the 2023 women’s cruise collection in Seville, Spain, next week, and, of course, her Dior couture presentation is scheduled for July 4 in Paris.
“I’m lucky to work with a dream team of three incredible creative directors, and I think each one of them deserves a worldwide stage,” Beccari offered. “Victoire was born in fashion. She’s authentic, a natural—a genius.”
For her star turn, de Castellane revisited couture themes, comparing them to “a never-ending garland.” This time, she mixed her love of color and movement with favorite print motifs, such as the stripes and florals on a supple necklace of interlaced ribbons. The creative masterpiece in the 137-piece Dior Print collection, it counts nearly 54 carats of diamonds, as well as emeralds, rubies, multicolored sapphires, tsavorite, Paraiba tourmalines, and red spinel. Elsewhere, a scattering of diamonds on an abstract necklace recalled leftover snippets of ribbon or trim.
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