Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfelis an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 August 1921
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
gets gracefully heavy powder
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
gets harder people
If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
extreme great personal
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
home wearing
I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
designer love mixed
I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
enjoyed modicum
I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
work
You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
determine seems
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
bad era good lots shades
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
ashamed believe chanel nice trying
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
life
Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
art properly
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
ladies
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
people
I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.