Iris Apfel on her ageless style & her new Book. #Accidental Icon
The 96-year-old style maven muses on her new book, the state of fashion, and her Bergdorf Goodman pop-up shop with her old friend Linda Fargo. Read more here from Harpers Bazaar.
“I have more than 750,000 Instagram followers, which is quite amazing, as I’ve never even gotten an e-mail address”.
“My” account is run by a woman named Paris who lives in Vienna, and I’m not quite sure where she gets the photos she posts of me”.
“ I’m very happy if I can be of some help, because I think young people today need direction”.
“They have to learn to be themselves, to develop a sense of curiosity, and not to live vicariously through these characters with no personality who they follow on social media.”
“If you want to lounge around, then don’t go out. And those who do look nice all seem to be walking around in a uniform
“Why would you want to look like everyone else when there’s such a big choice of things today?”
“ It’s hard to give blanket advice, but I just think that if everybody tries to be as self-respecting and interesting as they can, it would be a better world. Use your head and think about other people and look in a mirror once in a while!”
“I think style is in your DNA, but it requires work. You can’t just sit there. If you have the possibility of a great operatic voice and you don’t train it, nothing will come of it.”
“I see women today who don’t want to tell how old they are. That’s silly. At 96, I think that you should give thanks for every extra year you get.”
“ I’m not saying you should go around looking like an old hag, but I think it was Coco Chanel who said that nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately to look young”
“ I still wear the Norman Norell dress I wore on my first date with my husband, and that was 70 years ago. It’s a simple—and stunning—black dress, and luckily I’m more or less the same size as I was then”.
