The World Is Not Enough
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I SAT IN THE PENTHOUSE that Renzo Mongiardino designed for Elsa Peretti’s father in Rome. Peretti and I were smoking Gauloises cigarettes and talking about astrology—an ex-lover of hers was a Scorpio, as am I—and more importantly travel, which she told me, looking back at her illustrious career at Tiffany & Co., had given her life more purpose. “At 27 years old, Tiffany gave me the opportunity to explore,” she said. She visited craftsmen in the Far East and Europe and, as a result, created some of her most renowned collections, including Bean, Open Heart, and Zodiac. I thought about that afternoon while putting this issue of ED together. I, too, love to travel, and like Peretti, the travel I do isn’t simply about wanderlust—I lost that bug…
