When Ms. Peretti moved to Barcelona to become a model in the mid-1960s, her wealthy Italian family cut off financial support to her. Ms. Peretti got the idea from handling bones, which she sometimes stole as a child from underground crypts in Rome. In 2019, Tiffany estimated that its stores around the world sold an object designed by Ms. Peretti once every minute. “It was my price for the past,” Ms. Peretti told Vanity Fair about the contract, which remains in force after her death. “We were together 23 years,” Ms. Peretti told Vanity Fair in 2014.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2021 05:03 UTC