She was still in the spirit of the times despite her advanced age, being very present on social networks. Iris Apfel, eccentric New York fashion icon, has died at 102, her official Instagram account announced. The self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” from Queens had recently signed a collection for H&M, after multiple collaborations, including Citroën, Magnum, Happy Socks, MAC. A form of consecration, she also inspired a Barbie doll in her image.
With 2.9 million subscribers on Instagram, the centenarian still attended the presentations of great fashion designers, and paraded with her immense crimson smile in her wheelchair. Born in 1921 to a Jewish family in Queens, New York, Iris Apfel studied art history.
For decades, she has amassed a collection of clothes from the greatest designers of the 20th century, which fill two floors of her Park Avenue apartment.
In 2005, the Met Museum in New York devoted a retrospective to this wardrobe. For her famous jewelry, she said she got her supplies from Tiffany’s as well as from the Harlem bazaars. “One day, someone told me: ‘You’re not pretty and you never will be. But it doesn’t matter. You have something much more important: you have style'”, had- she used to tell.
2024-03-02 10:32:34
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