ELSA PERETTI
he year of 1968 marked a major turning point for Elsa Peretti. She moved to New York to further her modelling career and then with the money she scraped together, bought her first home in the largely abandoned Catalan village of Sant Martí Vell. This pair of decisions determined the trajectory of her life. In New York, Peretti would meet Halston, and through him the top brass at Tiffany & Co., under whose banner she would create some of the most emblematic jewellery designs of all time. And in the dilapidated village just north of Barcelona, she
