Peretti, Elsa
Biography
Elsa Peretti is an Italian jewelry designer. Peretti started as a fashion model in New York and Barcelona, and began designing her own jewelry. In 1974, she began working for Tiffany & Co. as a silver designer. In the early 1980s, her collections for Tiffany were expanded to include china, crystal and silver designs for the home. She celebrated her 25th anniversary with Tiffany in 1999, and the company established the Elsa Peretti Professorship in Jewelry Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the first endowed professorship in the history of FIT, in recognition of her work. In 2001, Peretti was given an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from FIT.
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Symposium records, 2018
Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2018 Symposium "Behind the Designer" on Saturday, May 12, 2018. The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Jennifer Pronesti "Basket, Bones and Biomorphism: Beneath the Surface of Ralph Rucci's Process" ; Bethany Gingrich "The Temple of the Muses: Max Meyer and the New York Museum" ; Darnell Lisby "Azzedine Alaïa and Naomi Campbell: Like Father and Daughter" .