I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. Elsa Peretti More Quotes by Elsa Peretti More Quotes From Elsa Peretti For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. Elsa Peretti museum me effort together 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 wear women want hair 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. Elsa Peretti good me shoes home People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time. Elsa Peretti need things time people 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. Elsa Peretti future nostalgia hope past I like to do things that are classic. Elsa Peretti things like classic I design for the working girl. Elsa Peretti working design girl What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. Elsa Peretti price status want beauty A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. Elsa Peretti long-time time long people 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 like me man work