Elsa Peretti Quotes
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I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
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I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
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I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
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I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
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What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
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Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
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Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.
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I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
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I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
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The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
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A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
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I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.
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People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
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I design for the working girl.
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I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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All my work comes out of my life.
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I can't copy nature.
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I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
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Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
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For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.
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You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
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In the '80s, everything became too serious.
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I like to do things that are classic.
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What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.