Tiffany & Co. has been around for intimately 180 years , and as Matthew Miele — theatre director of the new documentaryCrazy About Tiffany’s — point out tomental_floss , it continues to be one of America ’s most iconic brand name . Much like in his 2013 docudrama , Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf ’s , Miele sought to bring the history and ethnic relevance of this quintessential lavishness brand into focus . " Both Tiffany and Bergdorf ’s are so cultivated and finely perfect with their image , colors , baptistry , and ubiquity , " Miele say . " Their relevance maintains because they refine their simulacrum every week . They are both so attuned to the changing clock time and shifting attitudes that they always stay 12 steps before . "
sick About Tiffany’s — distinguish for Holly Golighty’sfamously fawning linein the motion-picture show that has become synonymous with the store — is out in prime field of operations and on VOD today .
1. TIFFANY’S OWNS THAT SHADE OF BLUE.
In the 1850s , right around the time Tiffany ’s open its first Paris location , father Charles Lewis Tiffany foresaw a huge trend and jump on it early . France’sEmpress Eugénie , who was the head fashion icon of her day , had chosen a shade of light blue as her official colour . Tiffany , realizing that hue would shortly be an international sensation , now made robin ’s egg gamey its company - widebranding color . The sheer , pretty tint became get laid as Tiffany Blue , and more than a hundred later , Pantone patented that specific refinement for Tiffany ’s . The exact recipe is a closely ward secret , but the name — Pantone No . 1837 — is a nod to the company ’s founding year . " It is a remarkable thing to have trademarked so long ago , " Miele says , " and an even greater effort to keep its recipe a enigma . "
2. CHARLES TIFFANY INVENTED THE MAILED SHOPPING CATALOG.
conceive the first mail - social club catalog was an old Sears , Roebuck & Co. one ? Nope ; Tiffany’sBlue Bookpredates Sears , Roebuck’sBig Bookby nigh 50 years . Charles Tiffany started send out his mailer in 1845 , and the book has become a way to push the company ’s rarest and most exclusive jewels , as well as to introduce new ingathering in their style jewelry and watch line .
3. ONLY TWO WOMEN HAVE EVER WORN “THE TIFFANY DIAMOND.”
In 1878 , Charles Tiffany buy an enormous , jolting chickenhearted diamond . Once cut into its classical shock absorber - material body brilliant , the stone weighed in at an telling 128.54 carats , and his owning it solidified Tiffany ’s reputation as the creation ’s premier jeweler .
4. TIFFANY’S INVENTED THE MODERN ENGAGEMENT RING.
Before the diamond boom of the late 1800s , unproblematic or engrave engagement rings were more unwashed — if a ring was given at all ( the Puritans had a practice ofgiving thimbles , which were considered more practical and did n’t give into the toilet table of jewelry ) . When diamond were used , the bezel setting , which kept the stone gloomy and flavorless in the basketball hoop ( think of a signet ring purpose ) was most democratic . Then Charles Tiffany settle to show off the brilliance of his ball field . In 1886,he raised the diamondoff of the hoop ’s hoop , creating the six - prong mounting that is now omnipresent with solitaire participation scope .
5. NEW YORK’S GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL HAS THE WORLD’S LARGEST TIFFANY CLOCK.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany ( Charles ’s son ) was rail in painting and glassware , and flourish the family job with his much - seek - after lamps , chandeliers , and stained glass , first with his own glassmaking firm and then by and by as the first Design Director at Tiffany & Co. ( The hard - to - please designing genius Steve Jobs was such a rooter of Louis Tiffany ’s body of work thathe once tookhis intact Macintosh team to a Tiffany exhibition for brainchild on how to mass - produce with child fine art . ) But some pieces that Tiffany design were one - of - a - form , like the enormous clock he made for Grand Central Terminal in 1914 . The clock — with its vivacious crimson and white Roman Catholic number and blue and yellow sunburst design — still has all of its original gear mechanism and parts , is still accurate , and is the largest illustration of Tiffany ’s glassware in the world .
6. TIFFANY’S CREATED THE FAMOUS NEW YORK YANKEES INSIGNIA.
" One of the smallest but most profound details I enjoyed light upon was their plan of the most famous insignia in sports , " Miele read . He ’s talking about the lock NY that the Yankees have used for a century . Back in 1877 , Louis Comfort Tiffany design and make a silver - plat medal of valor to be give to New York ’s first police force officeholder injure in the line of duty , and the ' NY ' insignia connect the medallion to the peg . One of the Yankees ' first team co - owners , William Devery , was also New York City ’s first Chief of Police , and thus would have been mindful of the aim . It first appeared on Yankees uniforms in 1909 , and has been a staple of the pinstripe look ever since .
7. THE SONG “BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S” DEFINITELY WANTED TO CAPITALIZE ON THE NAME.
Songwriter Todd Pipes and his stria Deep Blue Something were very calculated when it came to writing their one big strike . " I thought if I could get that phrase ' Breakfast at Tiffany ’s ' into a song , that people might like it , " Pipes says in the film . " It ’s a eldritch song . There ’s almost nothing poetic about it . " It solve though . Between the song ’s catchy melody and its invoking of a beloved picture show and brand , not only in the words but in the telecasting ( the band all meets for a Champagne-Ardenne breakfast in the centre of Fifth Avenue right outside Tiffany ’s , and near the end , an Audrey Hepburn lookalike give the radical a prolonged glimpse on her way down the street ) , this 1995 single was the ring ’s only song to chart on theBillboardHot 100 .
