Elsa Eternal

Fifty years after her trailblazing first collection with Tiffany, Elsa Peretti's iconic designs continue to influence how we wear fine jewelry.

- Camille Okhio

The revolution began with a sterling silver bud vase that walked the runway for designer Giorgio di Sant'Angelo in 1969. The woman responsible for the creation, Elsa Peretti, found the vase at a flea market and had it rendered in silver to be worn as a pendant. She followed that sophisticated stunt by abstracting snakes, scorpions, and skeletons in sterling, reducing natural and ancient forms to their essence for Tiffany & Co., where she went on to design myriad collections, beginning in 1974.