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I can't copy nature.
Elsa Peretti / Designer
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I like to do things that are classic.
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Classic
Things Like
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I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
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Erase
Pencil
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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
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Yorkshire
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Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.
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Bird
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I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
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Hate
Impeccable
Matched
Perfect
Perfectly
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What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
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Price
Status
Symbol
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The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
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Fails
Production
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Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.
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Jewelry
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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 / Designer
Be A Man
Work Man Must
Work Man Me
Get Married
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I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
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Jewelry
Modeling
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You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
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Transmit
Designing
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A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
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Diamond
Long Time
Wealth
Time Long People
Necklace
Nouveau
Such Things
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For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.
Elsa Peretti / Designer
Physically
Mentally
Museum
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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 / Designer
Gray
Platinum
Silver
Dye
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People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
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Dust
Surround
Time People Things
Houses
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I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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Excess
Purity
Detail
Eliminate
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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.
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Awful
Pain
Taurus
Neck
Bull
Else
Still
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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.
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Conservation
Furniture
Nostalgia
Designers
Wood
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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.
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Designer
Jewelry
Began
Exactly
Exactly What
Pencil
Sketch
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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.
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Add
Range
Wide
Collection
Feel More Things
The Secret Of
Valid
Wide Range
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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.
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Aesthetic
Balanced
Good Friend
Shoes
Japanese
Organic
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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.
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Enthusiastic
Full Moon
Give Me
Japan
Moon
Reflection
Sake
Cup
Earring
Magical
Necklace
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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 / Designer
Balance
Fruit
Imagine
Jewelry
Objects
Yang
Bowl
Yin
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