#rhode island comic con 2021

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As @jessicadicicco is going to Rhode Island Comic Con soon, I'm excited that I'm getting an autograph from her soon! 😀 Even though, I don't live in the Providence, RI area, I ordered via Zobie Productions to deliver to my residence in the Chicago, IL area.

This will mark my 4th autograph from the voice actresses of The Loud sisters I'm getting after I got ones from Cristina Pucelli, Grey DeLisle in 2019, and Lara Jill Miller in 2021.

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I will be attending Rhode Island Comic Con 2021 all weekend!

I’ll be cosplaying as Mac from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends on Fri. 11/5 and Sun. 11/7 and Steve from Blue’s Clues on Sat. 11/6. Unfortunately no third cosplay this year (I was thinking Kid Cosmic but I’ve been so emotionally exhausted and overworked that I didn’t have time getting another cosplay done), so I’ll be wearing Friday’s on Sunday, too.

I’ll be hanging with the amazing @chasing-dreams-since-1995 all weekend!

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This is the second round of photos from Rhode Island Comic Con 2021! Please let me know if you see yourself in any of these or in the other rounds! It was a true honor and pleasure to meet so many wonderful cosplayers!!

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Rhode Island ComicCon Pro Tip # 1: Have five children in tow, look appropriately exhausted, and Matthew Lillard will take pity on you and bring you the front of the autograph line.

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Just a heads up that Rachael Leigh Cook is going to be at RICC this year. Yes, I swore off this convention some years ago because the set-up is absolutely insane (Its an indoor arena, the tables for autographs are in the center, and you have to walk around the arena multiple times in a spiral to get there) but I will brave it one more time to meet her. Already penciled in the dates to take off of work.

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Until next year! 😞😞😞😞😞

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Convention Schedule for 2021

Hey guys! That’s right- conventions are actually returning! I wanted to make sure and post this while I was thinking of it.

I know I’ve been pretty quiet on here, but I’ve been focusing heavily on a new kickstarter (I’ll post a lil ad tomorrow), finishing up my old kickstarter, and completely reorganizing all my new merch into suitcases for travel again.

I’m actually genuinely so excited... I can’t believe things are coming back. Masks are still required at many of these events (which is great, because who knows how many people are actually gonna be vaccinated) and there are some attendance limitations in effect, but I don’t care. I can’t wait to travel again.

So anyway, here is my schedule!

--------------- June 25-27, Albuquerque Comic Con (New Mexico) July 2-4, Anime Midwest (Chicago, IL) July 9-11, Indypop Con (Indianapolis, IN) July 23-25, Metro Con (Tampa, FL) July 30- Aug 1, Anime Iowa (Coralville, IA) Aug 20-22, Planet Comic Con Kansas City (Missouri) Aug 27-29, Colorado Springs Comic Con (Colorado) Sep 3-6, Saboten (Phoenix, AZ) Sep 10-12, El Paso Comic Con (El Paso, TX) Sep 16-18, Salt Lake Comic Con (Salt Lake City, UT) Oct 30-31, Arctic Comic Con (Anchorage, AK) Nov 5-7, Rhode Island Comic Con (Providence, RI)

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The Diva of Design: Elsa Peretti

“Elsa brought out all these things—the bone bracelet I remember best. Everything was so sensual, so sexy. I just loved it. It was different from anything I’d ever seen, and I’d seen a lot.” – Liza Minelli

On March 18, 2021, the design world lost an artist who was as elegant and unique as her iconic jewelry designs, when Elsa Peretti “died at her home in Sant Martí Vell, Spain…. For 50 years, her designs inspired countless women and left an indelible mark on the jewelry world”(1). She made her mark in the 1970s as many young women were rejecting traditional homemaker roles and striving for successful careers of their own instead. Elsa Peretti designs resonated with this generation of women, spurning the fussy ornamentation of their mothers’ generation, but still yearning for beauty and elegant sophistication.

Elsa Peretti at work in New York City, 1970. Photo credit: PL Gould/Images Press/Getty Images Image source.

Peretti’s Early Days 

Elsa Peretti was born on May 1, 1940 in Florence, Italy to a wealthy family. Her father “Ferdinando Peretti founded Anonima Petroli Italiana (API), a large Italian oil company”(2). Young Elsa received education in Rome and Switzerland. When she was twenty-one, the strong-willed Elsa broke with her family and “as a result, she was cut off from any financial support”(3). To make her own way, she worked first as a French teacher and later as a skiing instructor in the Swiss Alps. She returned to Rome to study interior design, and eventually worked for architect Dado Torrigiani (2).

Peretti Becomes a Successful Model

In the 1960s, Elsa Peretti was drawn to the intellectual life in Barcelona and began her modeling career there. In 1968 she went to New York City on the advice of her modelling agency (3); however, she arrived in the city “with a black eye from her [former] boyfriend who opposed of the move”(1). In New York she met designer Halston “whom she met while he was still a milliner at Bergdorf Goodman”(2) and became one of the regular group of models who he favored (3). The pair would become close friends and sometimes collaborators. Their relationship has been dramatized in the recent Netflix mini-series, “Halston.”

Peretti Finds Lasting Success as a Jewelry Designer

The following year, Peretti began designing jewelry, “She created pieces for herself at first, then expanded to” friends and fashion designers she had met through her work. Her first design was a “inspired by a small bud vase found in a flea market”(2). She began designing jewelry for Halston in 1971,(2) then her work really got noticed. That same year her work appeared in Vogue Magazine, and Ms. Peretti received “the 1971 Coty Award for jewelry design. In 1972, the New York City Department store Bloomingdales “opened a dedicated Peretti boutique”(1). During this time, Peretti and Halston “were the center of a fun, clubby clique that included [designer Giorgio] Sant´Angelo, the illustrator Joe Eula, Victor Hugo (Halston’s boyfriend), designer Stephen Burrows and Andy Warhol”(3).

Elsa Peretti, Bud Vase Pendants (1969). Photographer unknown, Image source.

1974 was a milestone year in Elsa Peretti’s career. “Halston introduced her to Walter Hoving, the then CEO of Tiffany”(3). Hoving hired Ms. Peretti to design jewelry in sterling silver – “the first time Tiffany had sold jewelry in that material in 25 years”(4). Ms. Peretti’s designs were organic, sensual, and embodied a sense of fun that appealed to younger women. Since the silver designs were more affordable, “in a break from tradition, women were shopping for themselves rather than being gifted jewelry by men” (5). “But, the affordable prices never detracted from their beauty or desirability”(1).

Elsa Peretti, Bone Cuff in 18K Gold (1975). Photo credit: Tiffany & Co. Image source.

Elsa Peretti’s Iconic Work 

One of Elsa Peretti’s most famous designs is the Bone Cuff, which many have compared to the cuffs worn by the comic book female superhero Wonder Woman (1). Like the Bone Cuff much of Peretti’s “minimalist, biomorphic designs were inspired by simple, natural things” 1: The Bean Pendant, The Scorpion Necklace, Open Heart, High Tide, Starfish and Snake among others. For Tiffany & Co., Ms. Peretti also designed dinnerware, pens, key rings, and ashtrays (4,6). The Thumbprint dishes and bowls make up her most successful dinnerware collection (6).

Elsa Peretti, Thumbprint Bowl in Sterling Silver (1985). Photo credit: Tiffany & Co. Image source.

In 1977 Ms. Peretti’s distinctive designs garnered her the cover of Newsweek magazine. By the end of the 1970s Ms. Peretti was Tiffany’s star designer, and “designed over thirty collections for” (6) the company. Today “Peretti’s products account for roughly 10% of Tiffany’s sales. So important is her work to Tiffany’s bottom line that they paid her 47 million plus royalties to renew her contract in 2012 for the next 20 years” (3).

Elsa Peretti’s Life in the Fast Lane 

Elsa Peretti’s “personal life always grabbed attention” (4). Although never married, Ms. Peretti was in a serious relationship with photographer Hemut Newton during the 1970s. One of Newton’s most famous images is that of Ms. Peretti posing on a Manhattan apartment terrace wearing a version of a Playboy Bunny costume (2). Of course, “The costume was her idea,”(1) for a Halloween party (2).

During the late 1970s, along with designer pal Halston, Peretti was a frequent patron of Studio 54, “the storied Manhattan disco that attracted celebrities like Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, [and] Cher”(4). Ms. Peretti’s exploits at the club were legendary, one night after a misunderstanding with Studio 54 co-owner Steve Rubell, Peretti smashed a bottle of vodka on the floor (4).

Elsa Peretti, Snake Necklace in 18K gold (1985). Photo credit: Freeman’s Image source.

Falling Out with Designer Halston

Peretti’s alcohol and drug use, particularly cocaine, increased as the 1970s wore on, however, her partying never affected her professional work (4). To complicate matters, the more success Peretti gained, the more her strained relationship with Halston became. “Things came to a head during a… dinner at Halston’s townhouse. The night ended with Peretti throwing her sable coat from Halston into the fire”(3). Soon after this episode Peretti left New York to live and work in her adopted home of Sant Martí Vell in Catalonia, Spain (3).

Elsa Peretti’s Philathropic Work 

In 1977 Elsa Perretti founded the Nando Peretti Foundation, “with the inheritance from her father, with whom she reconciled just months before his death” (4). The foundation funds projects that support the environment, social inclusion, social welfare, human rights and the rule of law, education, scientific research, and arts and cultural history (7). The organization “was renamed the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation” in 2015 (2).

Elsa Peretti, Bud Vase (year unknown). Photo credit: Tiffany & Co. Image source.

Elsa Peretti’s Lasting Legacy 

Over the years celebrities Liza Minelli, Sophia Loren, Diana Ross, Sarah Jessica Parker, and tennis champion Maria Sharapova have worn jewelry designed by Elsa Peretti (4). “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” (4).

During her career Ms. Peretti was awarded the President’s Fellow Award by Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 and 1996 Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of American Accessories. Honors awarded to the designer include the 2013 National Prize of Culture by the Catalan Government, the order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and the Order of Malta (1).

In 1990 an exhibition of Elsa Peretti’s work was held at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2001 the same institution awarded the designer an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree (6), and Tiffany & Co. established the “Peretti Professorship in Jewelry Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the first endowed professorship in the history of FIT”(6).

Although many of Elsa Peretti’s designs were produced over 50 years ago, they still “maintain their style and beauty”(6) and are remain popular with women all over the world. However Elsa Peretti is remembered, whether as jewelry designer, fashion model, saavy business woman, outrageous celebrity, or philanthropist, this remarkable woman and her prolific work will be admired and acknowledged for many years to come.

References

Shirley, K., (22 March, 2021). Remembering Tiffany Jewelry Designer Elsa Peretti (1940-2021). https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenshirley/2021/03/22/remembering-tiffany–co-jewelry-designer-elsa-peretti-1940-2021/?sh=5a5a0d2867d3

Wikipedia, (16 April, 2012). Elsa Peretti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Peretti

Muller, J., (16 Ocotber, 2018). The Lasting Legacy of Elsa Peretti. http://www.primadarling.com/fashion/the-lasting-legacy-of-elsa-peretti/

Gates, A., (21 March 2021). Elsa Peretti, Star Designer of Elegant Jewelry, Dies at 80. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/fashion/elsa-peretti-dead.html

Borrell-Persson, L., (19 March, 2021). Jewelry Designer Elsa Peretti Has Died. /article/elsa-peretti-jewelry-designer-obituary

Tiffany & Co, (2021). About Elsa Peretti. https://www.international.tiffany.com/world-of-tiffany/about-elsa-peretti/

Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, (n.d.). About the Foundation. https://www.perettifoundations.org/en/page.php?project=0&page=5&cat=6&con=8

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⚠️ FAN CONVENTION UPDATE: Jen will be attending Rhode Island Comic Con

📆 Nov 6-7, 2021

📍 DUNKIN DONUTS CENTER

& RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION CENTER

🎫 Rhode Island Comic Con

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[Appearances] Going to RICC 2021

Going to RICC 2021 #riauthors #ricomiccon #ricc #rhodeislandcomiccon #scifi #scifibooks #fantasy

ARIA goes to RICC! The Association of Rhode Island Authors will selling books at Rhode Island Comic Con 2021. Our Location: We’ll be at tables: 613, 615, 617, 619, 621, 716, 718, 720. Panels: There will be two panels featuring our authors. World Building – Mind Your Myths and Backstory Rhode Island Convention Center 552 Saturday November 6, 2021 – 11:00 am to 11:45 am There’s much to consider…

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Rhode Island Comic Con 2021, here we come! DCC 1632

Rhode Island Comic Con 2021 is upon us.

From November 5th to the 7th, we will be at “The biggest show in the smallest state.”

As usual, we will bring comic books, graphic novels, art by Alex, beer, and… secret items. And for you creators, we will be happy to tell you about the anthology we are launching for next year. In case you missed it:

Dunkin Donuts Center

I am sure we will need coffee to keep up with all the activities and attendees. Good thing there will be Dunkin Donuts and other exciting things to keep us on our toes. Who knows, maybe we will run into the likes of Kevin Smith, or Ryan Hurst

DDC 1632 is us.

That’s right, we have moved up in the space. We were in the basement last time. No more. Find us on the upper level, booth DDC 1632. Last year was great but poor Joshua had some issues.

Besides coming to see us birdbrains, there are panels, photo-ops, and more.

They even have an app to navigate the show.

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WPRI Rhode Island Comic Con Sweepstakes - Chance To Win Two Tickets

WPRI Rhode Island Comic Con Sweepstakes – Chance To Win Two Tickets

Entering into the Rhode Island Comic Con Sweepstakes and chance to win two tickets. So, all United States residents enter the Sweepstakes before October 24th, 2021 to fix your chances to win. Sweepstakes Entry Page Sweepstakes Rules How To Enter : No purchase necessary to enter Sweepstakes. Enter online via Sweepstakes page to enter. Read carefully all the official Rules before entering in…

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Rhode Island Comic Con 2021: Ashley Eckstein

November 5th to the 7th will see Ashley Eckstein join the crowds at Rhode Island Comic Con talking The Clone Wars, Her Universe and much more besides. Ashley joins fellow galactic travellers Carl Weathers, Chris Bartlett, Emily Swallow, Misty Rosas and Omid Abtahi at the

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So this is my first round of photos from Rhode Island Comic Con 2021! Please let me know if you see yourself in any of these or in the next rounds! It was a true honor and pleasure to meet so many wonderful cosplayers!!

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