Tiffany & Co. Jewelry Designer Elsa Peretti Dies at 80

That's too bad. Her name clicked with me immediately, as she appears in the Halston documentary I viewed recently. She worked closely with him in his heyday.

Oh yeah, she designed his perfume bottle, didn't she?

Elsa was amazing. Talented beyond. RIP.

Can anyone tell me about this piece I got from my mother? It was hers.

I think she had a love-hate relationship with Halston. Bob Colacello wrote in his book about how the two would get high on coke and start hurling insults at each other.

I recommend the Halston documentary. It's excellent. What a fucking era that was!

“For most of the seventies she subsided off of caviar, cocaine, vodka and cigarettes...”. We should all aspire to such obituaries.

Elsa had a huge coke problem in the 70s. In Bob Colacello’s book, he describes a party where she saw him and told him, “you must come with me to the bathroom to try my new mouthwash. It’s the most marvelous lavender you’ve ever had.” Of course it was coke.

Elsa threw a $30,000 mink Halston gave her for Christmas 1977 into a fireplace in anger. The last straw for Halston was when she called him a untalented faggot and threw a bottle of vodka at him in the basement of Studio 54 as Steve Rubell and David Geffen watched.

They didn’t speak for years after that, but made up before his death.

In other news, how’s Paloma Picasso doing?

Elsa is unconcerned with your concern

Liza in her Elsa Peretti bone cuff

Interesting R9 mentioned Paloma Picasso because I thought - Elsa was just a child of extremely wealthy parents who hobnobbed with the rich and famous. She, like Paloma, was able to put together a few interesting jewelry design pieces - THAT SHE PUT TOGETHER WITH OTHER DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS INPUT.

I don't think she's nearly the 'genius' or anything else ascribed to her. It's like saying Gloria Vanderbilt was some genius designer - no, but her name was put on it.

R7, That was known as The Minnelli Diet.

I can tell you that it needs to be cleaned R4.

Is it sterling silver?

Lois Chiles by Francesco Scavullo, in Elsa Peretti necklace.

[quote] The Bottle pendant: Minimalist and ultra clean in its silhouette, the Bottle pendant was originally inspired by the young girls Peretti noticed in Portofino in the 1960s, who carried gardenias. Peretti wanted to create a bottle to keep the flowers alive and sketched out designs based on vases from antiquity. When the bottle took shape in metal, they had an elegant, sculptural beauty that would be present in all of Peretti’s future designs.

Peretti pieces:

Aw, that’s a shame.

She was hilarious in [italic]Brooklyn 99[/italic].

R16 - I rest my case. Amorphous polished metallic blobs.

It's been done before and she didn't break any new ground.

Don't forget Liza's belt and kidney bean necklace in That's Entertainment, r11.

Elsa who?

I want to see one of her vase pendants in action

I LOVE that photo o Liza at r11.

Yes, r14.

Fraus everywhere mourn.

R15 and handy to keep little powders in.

R4, selling for $187 on Etsy

$170 on eBay

VOGUE obituary article:

Thank you r26/27.

Her stuff has nothing on the Joan Rivers Collection.

I'll take Charles Loloma, thank you very much.

R30 = Melissa Rosenberg Endicott