Perhaps the most famous photo of Ms. Peretti was not one from a modeling assignment but the 1975 morning-after shot by the celebrity photographer Helmut Newton, with whom she was romantically involved at the time. The numbers varied from year to year, but Peretti merchandise sometimes represented 10 percent or more of Tiffany’s sales. Ms. Peretti’s designs are in several permanent collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She bought a house in Sant Martí Vell, a little more than an hour’s drive north of Barcelona, in 1968. In the 1970s, she talked about turning it into a community for artisans, but it became her own private village.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2021 13:18 UTC