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Victoire de Castellane

What do snow globes, Japanese toys, and Jessica Rabbit have in common? They're all inspirations for Christian Dior's jewelry designer.

Released on 11/03/2008

Transcript

(lush drum beat)

I would love to be Jessica Rabbit,

but I only may be,

well, maybe the stepmother of White Snow.

(playful music)

I m crazy about fake things.

That s why I love when real jewelry

is looking like fake jewelry.

Japanese stories are very inspiring,

because I think that they are funny,

but they re also naughty.

They are more like teenage toys than kids toys, for me.

I love fake foods, all this color, like pink,

very flow, and blue, the green, they were very inspire me.

So all the little toys here, it s a big family.

They give you strong and energy.

This one, this one or so.

I hate this one, he makes me strange.

Yes, it s like Toy Story,

they re all playing in the night when I m not here.

This is really inspire me, all this, plastic Scooby-Doos.

Because all those colors, for me are fantastic in jewelry.

That s why I made, you know, all those green

and special like trance you see.

Because I have all those colors and it s inspire me.

(joyous music)

Those snowglobes are my Jeff Koons.

I like when reality mix with fantasy or fiction.

When I was a little kid, I was looking

at my grandmother, was just matching the jewelry

with her clothes, and they look for me like huge,

and I love this proportion.

It seems very interesting for me to wear big jewelry.

Like if you re a child and you re trying

your mother s jewelry.

I think that if Snow White was to have a ring,

it s this one, that s why I created this.

And this one s more for the stepmother.

I think it s very nice to have miniature things,

because you enter in this world.

It s like Alice in Wonderland.

It s good to to do what you like in life.

I don t have the sensation of work,

because it s like I was playing, you know.

I m still playing with real.

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Starring: Victoire de Castellane