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Iris Apfel : Accidental Icon

Musings of a Geriatric Starlet

by Iris Apfel
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/03/2018

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A beautiful vibrant and fun exploration of one of fashion's unlikeliest stars. Perfect for fans of Humans of New York and Grace: A Memoir

One of the most dynamic personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design and hands down the most vital, witty nonagenarian in the solar system Iris Apfel is a true original.

Now, this contemporary legend, whose authenticity, candor, and infectious energy have earned her fans of all ages worldwide, has created an entertaining, thought-provoking, visually arresting, and exciting volume that captures her irrepressible joie de vivre.

Astute maxims, anecdotes from childhood to the present, essays on style and various subjects—from the decline of manners to risk-taking—fill the book, as do lists proclamatory, revelatory, and advisory. A bold, highly colorful design that varies from page to page presents a characteristically improvisational pastiche of vibrant images including personal photographs and mementos, images from top international fashion photographers, specially commissioned art by renowned illustrators, and a range of surprising novelties.

This is a rare book by a rare bird, indeed.

“I never want to be an old fuddy-duddy; I hold the self-proclaimed record for being the World’s Oldest Living Teenager and I intend to keep it that way.” Iris Apfel

ISBN:
9780062405081
9780062405081
Category:
Fashion & society
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-03-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
238x165mm
Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel is the renowned American businesswoman, interior designer, fashion icon and a prolific collector of and authority on antique textiles. In 1950 she founded Old World Weavers with her husband Carl, an international textile manufacturing company specializing in reproducing antique fabrics. She was a consultant to the White House during nine presidential administrations and produced fabric that still hangs in the Gold Room today.

In 2005, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art staged Rara Avis, a blockbuster exhibit of her clothing and accessories, making her the first living person who was not a fashion designer to be so honored. In 2014, she was the subject of director Albert Maysles’ award-winning film Iris.

An associate professor at the University of Texas, she is the recipient of numerous awards, including a special award from the Women Together Foundation at the United Nations for her lifelong dedication and support of artisans around the world. In 2018, at the age of 96, she was the oldest person to be turned into a Barbie doll. In 2023, at the age of 102, Iris wrote Colorful, to be published on her 103rd birthday (Ebury Press 2024).

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