Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1962, Victoire de Castellane is a French jewellery designer. She started her career alongside Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, overseeing the house’s costume jewellery designs for 14 years. Since 1998, she has worked as creative director of Christian Dior’s fine jewellery division. Her personal work has been exhibited in art settings, including a solo show, Fleur d’excès, at Gagosian Gallery in 2011. In January and March 2014 "Animalvegetablemineral" the second personal exhibition of unique object by Victoire de Castellane was presented at Gagosian Gallery Davies Street, London & Gagosian Madison avenue, New York. De Castellane lives and works in Paris.