Iris Apfel is an American businesswoman, fashion icon, and interior designer who has a net worth of $25 million. Iris Apfel was born in Astoria, Queens, New York in August 1921. She studied at New York University and the University of Wisconsin. Apfel worked for Women’s Wear Daily and married Carl Apfel in 1948. The couple started the textile firm Old World Weavers. Iris Apfel was involved in many restoration projects from 1950 to 1992 including working at the White House for Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson, Carter, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition on Apfel in 2005, and other museums have followed in their footsteps. Apfel served as a visiting professor at University of Texas at Austin in 2012 at 90 years old. She was named one of the fifty Best-Dressed over 50s by The Guardian in 2013. Apfel was featured in the 2015 documentary Iris.
Nobody does eccentric fashion like Iris Alpfel, checkout our top favorite quotes and looks by the greatest Slay icon of all time.
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When you don't dress like everyone else you don't have to think like everyone else
To lead the good life in New York the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur lined rain coat
If you make a mistake in what you put together the fashion police are not going to haul you into jail
I don't see anything wrong with the wrinkle it's kind of a badge of courage
I don't expect to find inspiration it just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired
Fashion you can buy but style you must possess
If your hair is done properly and you are wearing good shoes you can get away with anything
There's no how to map to style it's about self expression and above all attitude
