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© PAOLO ROVERS; COURTESY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS; COURTESY DIPTYQUE 54 BAL HARBOUR If the glittering bounty of Van Cleef & Arpels in the Bal Harbour Shops sets your heart aflutter like the company's signature bejeweled butterfly, you may want to visit New York this fall. Starting October 25th, the jeweler's Paris-based School for Jewelry Arts hosts a pop-up in New York with more than a dozen different classes and hands-on workshops in the art and history of jewelry taught by some of the world's top gemologists, jewelers and scholars. Though sited in a posh mansion just off Fifth Avenue, each two-to-three-hour class is geared to the novice and priced for the populist, as are three unique jewelry exhibitions and a series of talks, which are free to the public. Through November 9. —Laura van Straaten PARIS, COLORADO Following a blockbuster showing at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Denver Art Museum plays host to Dior's first major retrospective in the United States. "Dior: From Paris to the World" celebrates 70 years of the couturier's inimitable influence through more than 150 haute couture looks, along with accessories, sketches, videos and the national premiere of archival materials. Beginning with its avant-garde founding by Christian Dior, the exhibition takes a glittering, sinuous tour through each subsequent artistic director, including Yves-Saint Laurent, John Galliano, Raf Simons and today's Maria Grazia Chiuri. Opening November 19. ORIGIN STORY Paying homage to its serendipitous origins, this season Diptyque is releasing limited-edition oddities and reimagining its signature 34 fragrance (so named for its first brick and mortar address, 34 boulevard Saint Germain) as an eau de parfum. Here, the olfactory portrait of the original shop's interior is given a swirl of tonka bean, a spiced pinch of sandalwood, and a brisk splash of pepperwood. Among the brand's latest objects are fragranced paper and matches and a beautifully rippled glass candle holder further elevating its line of coveted scents.