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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. "
Elsa Peretti
Gray
Like
Silver
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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. "
Elsa Peretti
Mind
Good
I Am
" I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. "
Elsa Peretti
Like
Very
Tea
" The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails. "
Elsa Peretti
Faithful
Production
Line
" I design for the working girl. "
Elsa Peretti
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Girl
Working
" Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them. "
Elsa Peretti
Like
Nothing
Value
" I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. "
Elsa Peretti
Perfect
Impeccable
Look
" 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. "
Elsa Peretti
Myself
Baby
Ideas
" You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design. "
Elsa Peretti
You
Beauty
Design
" 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. "
Elsa Peretti
Shoes
Me
Design
" A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. "
Elsa Peretti
Long Time
Long
Wealth
" People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time. "
Elsa Peretti
People
Need
Time
" I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his. "
Elsa Peretti
Be A Man
Work
Me
" I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck. "
Elsa Peretti
Pain
Nothing
Like
" For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. "
Elsa Peretti
Me
Big
Effort
" I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. "
Elsa Peretti
Myself
Quality
Push
" What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. "
Elsa Peretti
Beauty
Become
Price
" I always write in pencil, so I can erase. "
Elsa Peretti
Always
I Can
Erase
" 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. "
Elsa Peretti
Reflection
Moon
Moment
" I can't copy nature. "
Elsa Peretti
Copy
Nature
" I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model. "
Elsa Peretti
Jewelry
Better
Scared
" I like to do things that are classic. "
Elsa Peretti
Classic
Things
Like
" Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country. "
Elsa Peretti
Country
I Can
Time
" In the '80s, everything became too serious. "
Elsa Peretti
Everything
Too
Became
" 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. "
Elsa Peretti
Hope
Future
Past