Christian Dior was born in 1905 in Granville, a seaside town on the Normandy coast. The family home, Les Rhumbs, was a Belle Époque villa set among cliffs above the English Channel, surrounded by a winter garden of botanical abundance — roses, hydrangeas, hollyhocks — that Dior would reference throughout his career as a couturier. Embedded in the garden's paving stones was a mosaic compass rose, its points rendered in ocean blues. The rose, the star, the compass, and the sea — these four motifs appeared repeatedly in Dior's couture collections, as embroidery, as architectural structure, as recurring visual obsession. In 1950, the architectural plan of an entire evening gown was organized around the star form. The garden of Granville did not merely inspire Dior. It provided the vocabulary he spent his life translating into cloth and eventually into gold.

Victoire de Castellane was appointed artistic director of Dior Joaillerie in 1998 — the year the house launched its first fine jewelry collection. She has held the position since, making her one of the longest-tenured creative directors in luxury jewelry. Her approach has always been to immerse herself in Monsieur Dior's personal history and to find within it the formal language for each new collection. Rose des Vents began as an act of archaeological imagination: what did the compass in the garden mean to the man who grew up beside it?

Rose des Vents — the wind rose, the compass — was launched in 2015 as Victoire de Castellane's translation of the Granville garden into fine jewelry. The collection's central object is a double-sided miniature gold medallion: on one face, the eight-pointed wind rose in pavé diamonds, its points referencing both the compass of the garden and Monsieur Dior's lucky star. On the other face, an ornamental stone — each one unique, gleaming in pearlescent, pink, blue, or green, selected individually for its particular quality of light. The medallion's edge is encircled by a gold ring of beading inspired by a sailor's knot, nodding to the proximity of the sea. It can be worn as a pendant, attached to a bracelet, or integrated into earrings. Victoire de Castellane describes the collection as "a metaphor for creation — to seek, to turn in circles, then find your cardinal direction and depart on a journey." In 2025, Rose des Vents celebrates its tenth year, still expanding with new pieces that hew close to the spirit of its origins.

Victoire de Castellane was appointed artistic director of Dior Joaillerie in 1998, at the age of thirty-one, having previously worked at Chanel under Karl Lagerfeld. She had no formal training in jewelry. What she brought instead was an imagination shaped by fashion — by the logic of season and collection, by the understanding that a garment tells a story across multiple pieces, by the conviction that a jewelry collection should have a narrative as rigorous as a couture défilé. She has held the position for over twenty-five years, producing new fine jewelry and high jewelry collections each season, each one rooted in a specific chapter of Christian Dior's personal history. It is one of the longest and most consistently creative tenures in contemporary luxury. The work she produces is unmistakably hers — fantastical, informed by history, technically precise, and entirely free of the conservatism that governs most fine jewelry design.

Dior Joaillerie is presented at the Dior boutique at 21 East 57th Street, in Midtown's most concentrated luxury corridor. The full fine jewelry range — Rose des Vents, Étoile des Vents, Oui, Archi Dior, Bois de Rose, and the DiorTribales earrings — is available alongside the high jewelry pieces, which are presented by appointment. New York is one of Dior Joaillerie's most significant markets — a city whose appetite for jewelry with a narrative, with a formal logic, with a story to tell beyond the quality of its stones, aligns naturally with what Victoire de Castellane has been building since 1998. The compass on the garden floor in Granville points in every direction. In New York, one of them leads to 57th Street.