Elsa Peretti quotes:

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  • A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

  • 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.

  • I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

  • I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

  • Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.

  • I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

  • I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,

  • I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I design for the working girl.

  • For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.

  • 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.

  • What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.

  • A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

  • Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

  • Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

  • You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

  • 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.

  • I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

  • All my work comes out of my life.

  • I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple.

  • What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.

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