Creative Director of #DiorHauteJoaillerie, @VictoiredeCastellane discusses the inspirations behind the ‘Tie & Dior’ collection and her enthusiasm about the appropriation of jewelry by men. With the focus on color and proportion, she embraced unusual hues of pearls and contrasting stone sizes to create a visual sense of movement. Inviting @MariaGraziaChiuri to the studio, she explained the ideas behind the collection, which the latter channeled into a special line-up of draped dresses in single dégradé colors for the unveiling at an exclusive event in Shanghai on July 25. © Photo by @Z.Qiann

The tie-dye technique was the starting point for the creation of the #DiorHauteJoaillerie 'Tie & Dior' collection by @VictoiredeCastellane. A signature of the House's women's collections from @MariaGraziaChiuri, its telltale graphic combinations of color inspired the use of contrasting stones of various size and brilliance, some with a visual buffer of white diamonds in between, and pearls in unexpected shades, to compose exquisite earrings, rings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches. The exclusive dinner held in Shanghai to celebrate the worldwide launch of this precious collection also featured a tonal line-up of dresses in single-color dégradé effects designed specially for the occasion by @MariaGraziaChiuri and made by the petites mains in the House's atelier flou. © Photos by @Z.Qiann, @Riven_Zhang, Sophie Carre

Strong, confident and radiant women! Here is the beauty statement of the Dior Cruise 2021 show: transparent and glowy complexion enhanced with slightly coated lashes for a intensified eye look! • GET THE LOOK: DIOR BACKSTAGE FACE & BODY PRIMER DIOR BACKSTAGE FACE & BODY FOUNDATION DIOR FOREVER SKIN CORRECT CONCEALER DIORSHOW ICONIC OVERCURL MASCARA DIORSHOW BROW STYLER DIORSHOW PUMP’N’BROW DIOR LIP SUGAR SCRUB DIOR LIP MAXIMIZER • #DiorCruise #diormakeup @diormakeup

The new Diorshow Iconic Overcurl Mascara, inspired by Couture pieces, is much more than just a mascara, it’s a fashion statement. • #DiorCruise #Diorshow #diormakeup @diormakeup

For the #DiorCruise 2021 show, @peterphilipsmakeup, Creative and Image Director of @diormakeup, created completely natural and luminous make-up look: «For these young women with ultra-natural beauty, I favoured a luminous and transparent complexion as well as a slightly underlined, subtly intensified eye. » • #DiorCruise #diormakeup @diormakeup

As part of a unique @DiorMaison collaboration, master ceramicist Agostino Branca and the skilled members of his specialist workshop translate the native flora associated with Puglia - the Italian region that inspired the #DiorCruise 2021 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri - and mystical tarot symbols associated with Monsieur Dior himself, onto hand-painted plates. Based in the historical city of Lecce, Branca has sought to restore the artistry to ceramics production, rendering his creations as beautiful as they are functional, and further highlighting the local savoir-faire championed by the collection. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare Photo by @BlueAnto

Join digital entrepreneur and House friend @ChiaraFerragni as she heads on a fascinating tour with art historian and @IFExperience creative director Filippo Cosmelli (@BiancoCosmelli) through Puglia, the southern Italian region that inspired the #DiorCruise 2021 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri. The area has been shaped by the numerous civilizations and cultures that have called it home for millennia, and their vestiges can still be found in towns such as Galatina and the baroque splendor of Lecce, in which the show took place, in everything from intricate golden jewelry to breathtaking chapel murals, from the weaving tradition to local dialects and song. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare Photo by @FedericaLivia_Photo

Featuring a motif representing the Puglia region, with references to art, music and tarantism - the dancing frenzy that local legend associates with a spider bite - a cotton tote bag was specially created as a souvenir for those involved in the unveiling of the Dior Cruise 2021 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri. Tessitura Calabrese, a fabric mill perpetuating traditional weaving techniques and named after the family matriarch, produced the bag in a further example of the savoir-faire contained in the area. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare Photo by @BlueAnto

Celebrated annually by La Notte della Taranta, the powerful, palpitating rhythms of the traditional Puglian folk dance known as the pizzica provided a resonant cadence to the unveiling of the Dior Cruise 2021 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri. A regular House collaborator, choreographer @SharonEyaldance - accompanied by an orchestra and singers conducted by Paolo Buonvino - drew on the profound, primitive emotions at the core of the music, which traces its roots to an age-old rite for treating the effects of a spider bite, in order to transform the pain into a hypnotic expression of liberation. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare

Normally specializing in the production of high-quality home linens, Tessitura Tre Campane is a fabric mill owned and operated by brothers Massimo and Gabriele Liso. Located in Alessano, a village at the tip of the Salento peninsula, in a part of the Italian province of Puglia known for its textiles, its special savoir-faire was called on for the Dior Cruise 2021 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, and its precious stock of old looms employed to create striped fabrics of a type associated with the region’s traditional dress, and now cut into soft tailoring and elegant separates. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare

Joining forces once more, during the development of the #DiorCruise 2021 collection @MariaGraziaChiuri called on @PietroRuffoArtist to elicit the beauty and mysterious magic of Puglia. The artist’s floral depictions and astrological and astronomical evocations channel not just the untamed, natural beauty and starry skies of the Italian region but also call up memories of Monsieur Dior whose love of plants and superstitious beliefs shaped the course of the House. © Film by Edoardo Winspeare Photo by @Lili.Moquin

Cristina Rizzo, president of Fondazione Le Costantine, speaks about the Puglian weaving workshop founded by women which is keeping alive and passing on the region’s textile traditions, and the #DiorCruise 2021 collaboration with @MariaGraziaChiuri. #DiorSavoirFaire © Film by Edoardo Winspeare Photo by @BlueAnto