THE DESIGN TALENT BEHIND BABY DIOR AND DIOR MAISON CORDELIA DE CASTELLANE WELCOMES US INTO HER FAIRYTALE FRENCH FARMHOUSE AND TALKS FASHION, FURNISHINGS AND HAPPY FAMILIES
‘It was my dream to some day buy this magical place’
For Cordelia de Castellane, a life in fashion and design wasn’t just a childhood dream come fabulously true but also very much an embrace of a long family tradition. Indeed, you might say she was born into the business: her Greek-born mother Atalanta is a former decorator and her cousin, Victoire de Castellane, an acclaimed jewellery designer for Christian Dior. She’s a great grand-niece of the celebrated French architect and interior decorator Emilio Terry, and Christina Onassis was her godmother.
‘Keep the decor natural and effortless. Don’t try too hard’
Both her grandmothers were loyal couture clients and family holidays were spent visiting museums all over the
