ELSA PERETTİ
Elsa Peretti was a successful model and fully
paid-up member of the sixties New York party scene before she started
designing jewellery and accessories for her friends, including Halston
and Oscar de la Renta. In 1974 she started working exclusively for
Tiffany & Co at which she designed her eponymous Diamonds by the
Yard, Bean, Open Heart, Sevillana, Teardrop and Bottle collections.
Peretti was born in Florence on May 1 1940 - the youngest daughter
of a wealthy Roman businessman. She later studied interior design at
Volbicela School in Rome before relocating to New York to further her
modelling career
.A distinguishing moment in her modelling career was posing with Salvador Dali in 1966 wearing a Paco Rabane dress.In 1968, Peretti began designing jewellery for Halston, Oscar de la
Renta, Giorgio di Sant'Angelo.
One of her first pieces was a small
silver bud vase pendant. The vase, holding a flower, made its first
public appearance in a Giorgio di Sant'Angelo show in 1969.
Peretti picked up the Coty Award for Jewellery in 1971.In 1973 Halston asked her to design the bottle for his soon-to-be
iconic perfume (which became the second-biggest-selling fragrance of all
time after Chanel No. 5).Peretti posed for Helmut Newton in a Playboy bunny suit for French Vogue in 1975.In 1981 Peretti won the Rhode Island School of Design President's Fellow Award.To mark the 15th year of Elsa Peretti's association with Tiffany and
to celebrate Peretti’s 50th birthday on May 1 1990, jewellery and
tableware by Peretti was put on display at the Fashion Institute of
Technology in New York.In 1996, the Council of Fashion Designers of America named Peretti Accessory Designer of the Year.Elsa Peretti celebrated her 25th anniversary with Tiffany in 1999
and the company established the Elsa Peretti Professorship in Jewellery
Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.In 2001, the designer was presented with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from FIT.
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