Victoire de Castellane rediscovers her inner child with one of her best Dior high jewelry collections

The cypress avenue makes its impact, from the entrance. Last Monday, as the sun sets over the hills of the Fayence region, between Grasse and Cannes, guests do not hide their pleasure at discovering what was "Monsieur Dior's castle ," at walking through his divine garden and discovering some of the rooms of the house, sometimes even the most intimate, such as his office and his bathroom. The couturier acquired La Colle Noire in 1951 and carried out major works to restore and improve this 19th ^- century Provençal building, transforming the garden and digging a pond. He only enjoyed it for a handful of years but received many artists and prominent people, as evidenced by the reproduction of his guestbook placed in the vestibule and signed, among others, by Chagall, Bernard Buffet, Marie-Laure de Noailles. Bought by Christian Dior Parfums in 2013, the house was refurnished almost identically thanks to a photo report in the magazine Connaissances des arts des…