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Elsa Peretti - Tiffany & Co Jewelry Designer
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Elsa Peretti is a jewelry designer, philanthropist, and former fashion model. The Florence-born artisan joined Tiffany & Co in 1974. Educated in Rome and Switzerland, Elsa Peretti initially made her living teaching Italian and working as a ski instructor in the German-speaking Swiss mountain village of Gstaad, before moving to Milan, Italy in 1963 to pursue a degree in interior design and to work for the architect Dado Torrigiani. “Style is to be simple.” In 1964 she decided to take a new career path as a fashion model. After having spent her first couple of years in Barcelona, Spain, she followed Wilhelmina Modeling Agency'ssuggestion to...
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