For Dior Maison and Dior Baby artistic director Cordelia de Castellane, everything begins with flowers. “They are my laboratory,” she tells Vogue, “it’s where I start all my collections, my colours and palette.”
Like Christian Dior, who was influenced by his childhood garden at Villa Les Rhumbs, near Granville in Normandy, de Castellane’s love of flowers began with the herbariums she made with her grandmother as a child in the Swiss Alps, pressed inside huge dictionaries. “I always wanted my own garden,” she recalls.
Decades later, her wish finally came true, when, in 2018, she and her husband, banker Igor de Limur, purchased a manor house that they used to rent in L’Oise, a bucolic French département an hour north of Paris. There, she took up gardening as a way…
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British Vogue (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025