Nine surprising data about Elsa Peretti: The star jewel of Tiffany & Co. who lived in a town in Girona

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Elsa Peretti arrived in New York at the end of the sixties of the last century, with one hand in front and one behind, to try their luck as a model in the Big Apple.As he told a few years later in The New York Times, it was a cold day of February 1968: "I arrived with a purple eye, my lover, who did not want me to leave".But what few knew in Manhattan was that the Italian belonged to one of the most important families in Europe.

He was born in Florence, in 1940, the youngest of the daughters of the oil magnate Ferdinando Peretti.His mother, Maria Luisa Pighti, was a fundamental character of the Italian high society of the time."My mother then dressed in the best designs in Rome and I made two costumes a year.I remember drinking tea, surrounded by books and friends with whom he kept long gatherings.It was an intellectual.He painted, wrote.Very smoker, like me, "recalled the designer in an interview in this magazine in 2012.