Recently, I was leafing through (can you imagine?)
my first and only one I've ever bought owned, a year old Harper's Bazaar (sincerely, even this single issue was gifted to me;), grieving for so many pages (416! if to be precise) of fine glossy paper wasted on nothing, when suddenly, I came across an article about this great woman, Iris Apfel - a
Rare Bird of Fashion, as she's commonly referred to, an interior designer and decorator, and a startling American fashion icon!
It was a couple more times that I had stumbled upon her photographs, but this time I knew, a post is going to happen..!
"Style is integral. It's something that's you."
Huge round glasses are regarded as her distinctive trendmark! Lady Iris has been gathering her richest wardrobe all her life and some time ago, a part of it was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum under the name of Selection from the Iris Barrel Apfel Collection.
Scanned from Harper's Bazaar
Scanned from Harper's Bazaar Below is the New York, Manhattan apartment of Iris Apfel and her lifetime husband Carl Apfel. {via Architectural Digest}
“I don’t care what people think…I learned a long time ago…I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience….and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself…and as long as I don’t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband…I’ll do my own thing. And if the public doesn’t like it, it’s their problem, not mine.” 
via here MAC has created a series of cosmetics inspired by Iris Apfel's style. Read more about the collection here
Iris Apfel's Plastic 80s Charm Necklace, Vogue Nippon
via here
“I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. Whenever possible, it’s really great to start with a marvelously cut designer piece and build on it. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. My friends tell me that my oversized glasses and my pairs of bracelets have become my unwritten signature. I have amassed an enormous “collection” of bags, belts, bangles and beads without which I would be lost. One can change the entire look of an outfit by substituting one accessory for another. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving – hopefully – a kind of throwaway chic.”
"I love accessories. For me, they are the most important part of my wardrobe."image via here And, finally, a Vogue Italia (Sep, 2010) photoshoot inspired by Iris Apfel!
“(My look is) either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.”
“I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!”
“My so-called “collection” is my wardrobe. It’s a series of pieces I’ve accumulated over these many years. I love a timeless look, and I think if you develop your own style it’s not a problem – at least it hasn’t been for me. I can mix something I bought last week with something I’ve hoarded for 30 years. I don’t follow trends or the hottest fashion. I buy what I like and my tastes are quite catholic – haute couture to street fashion. Pieces that are Zen-simple or madly baroque. I love ethnic as well as contemporary. I’m fond of serious and adore amusing. I try to make all these things work together.”
Magazine: Vogue Italia
Issue: September 2010
Editorial: Be Inspired by Iris Apfel
Model: Tanya Dziahileva
Photographer: Greg Lotus
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton
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