The self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” from Queens had recently signed a collection for H&M, after multiple collaborations, notably with Citroën, Magnum, Happy Socks, MAC. A form of consecration, she also inspired a Barbie doll in her image.
His mantra: “dare to be different”. His secret: never having stopped working. “Try new things. Don’t let the age and the numbers fool you. Iris Apfel had managed to acquire “mastery of the art of living”, summed up musician Lenny Kravitz on Instagram.
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. Here at the Noon by Noor show during Fashion Week Fall 2015 at Lincoln Center in New York. — © imago stock&people via www.imago-images.de / imago images/UPI Photo
Born in 1921 to a Jewish family in Queens, New York, Iris Apfel studied art history. An interior designer, she participated in White House renovations for nine presidents, from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. — © Evan Agostini / keystone-sda.ch
Iris Apfel at the age of 101. This American entrepreneur born in Queens, United States, is an interior designer. She has become a fashion icon – in real life and on social media, always recognizable with her XXL glasses. The doyenne created a ready-to-wear collection for H&M last year. In this image, she was on her way to the ACE (or Accessories Council Excellence) Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 2, 2021, in New York. — © Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
“One day I was told, ‘You’re not pretty and you never will be. But it does not matter. You have something much more important: you have style,” she used to say. Here, Iris Apfel attends the launch of her jewelry collaboration at the Bernardaud boutique in New York, September 2019. — © Ron Adar, via www.imago-images.de / imago images/ZUMA Press
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. Here, Annie Watt Photo Agency is hosting the Impromptu Portraits photography exhibition in honor of Iris Apfel at The Colony on April 18, 2023 in Palm Beach. — © IMAGO/Meghan McCarthy / The Palm Beach Daily News / IMAGO/USA TODAY Network
In 2016, it was simultaneously the subject of an exhibition at Bon Marché in Paris, the face of a new advertising campaign from Citroën and an Australian ready-to-wear brand, Blue Illusion. — © imago stock&people via www.imago-images.de / imago images/ZUMA Press
This fashionista was the subject of a 2014 documentary directed by Albert Maysles, “Iris”. The same year, she lost her husband, Carl, a textile industrialist, who died at age 100. A fan of colorful silhouettes, Iris Apfel called on women to abandon the “uniform of black tights or jeans with a sweater, ankle boots and a leather jacket.” — © via www.imago-images.de / imago images/Everett Collection
His mantra: “dare to be different”. His secret: never having stopped working. “Try new things. Don’t let the age and the numbers fool you. Iris Apfel had managed to acquire “mastery of the art of living”, summed up musician Lenny Kravitz on Instagram. — © Sonia Moskowitz via www.imago-images.de / imago images/ZUMA Press
American designer and fashion icon Iris Apfel (C) attends Atelier Swarovski’s fall-winter 2016 collection presentation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 20, 2016. — © THAIS LLORCA / keystone-sda. ch
American designer and fashion icon Iris Apfel poses during the presentation of a documentary film about her, titled ‘Iris’, as part of 080 Barcelona Fashion, in Barcelona, Spain, July 3, 2015. — © TONI ALBIR / keystone-sda.ch
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