![]() A mesh necklace reminds the 36-year-old of the scene in which she and Halston are creating Liza Minnelli’s bright yellow wedding suit. The cuff can be resized once it’s “warmer,” Dayan says, which she discovered while filming in New York City (“You can tighten it a teeny bit, but you have to wait,” she adds). The actress picks up a sterling silver scorpion necklace, recalling the way it unclasps in two pieces, which initially led the show’s costume designer Jeriana San Juan to believe she’d broken it. “What if we added a bit of chunky jewelry?” Peretti asks.Įxamining Peretti’s jewelry at Tiffany with Dayan is like plunging headlong into a vault of stories from the show’s set. ![]() In fact, Peretti’s first line in the show is a cheeky nod to a life spent at the workbench- Halston, played by Ewan McGregor, is in his studio with Dayan-as-Peretti and the fashion illustrator Joe Eula (David Pittu), surveying a dress that he finds boring. ![]() Peretti’s journey in jewelry-making is a central storyline in the Halston biopic, which traces the rise and fall of the designer and his Factory-esque band of misfit artists, models, and fashion folk. took notice shortly thereafter, bringing her on as an in-house designer three years later. By 1971, she was designing bijoux for Halston Tiffany & Co. Peretti famously began modeling for Halston during his early days as a designer, then used her own craftsmanship skills to design the off-kilter bottle for Halston’s first perfume. To prepare to play Peretti in the upcoming Netflix limited series Halston, she spent the past year and a half soaking in every aspect of the Italian designer’s life-studying her history as an artisan, wearing her jewelry and the fanciful designs that Roy Halston Frowick, to whom she was a muse and good friend, made for her. “There is an organic aspect to her way of making.”ĭayan would know. “When you wear her jewelry, you can feel how tactile everything is,” Dayan says, tucking her short brown bob, hidden under a baseball cap, behind her ears while she continues scanning the case. The actress pauses and bends over the brightly lit display to get a closer look at the pieces that cemented the jewelry designer’s legacy and have become some of the brand's bestsellers: delicate Diamonds by the Yard necklaces, a sculptural Bone Cuff in 18 karat gold, the classic Open Heart pendant. Rebecca Dayan traces her hand across a glass case containing Elsa Peretti’s greatest hits at Tiffany & Co.’s flagship store in New York City.
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