The Fierce and Brilliant Elsa Peretti

AKA: Lessons in How to be a Fierce and Brilliant Woman.

Elsa Peretti photographed by Helmut Newton in Halston bunny costume.

In learning more about the iconic jewelry designer Elsa Peretti through the Netflix series “Halston” I feel that I have made a new friend. I am SO very inspired by her life as a member of an aristocratic wealthy Italian family that, in her words, she “escaped” from — briefly worked as a model and then later became a muse for the designer…