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
shoes important world
To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
promise world
The world is always full of promise.
teenager trying world
I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.
people
I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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.
art properly
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
life
Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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.
although mentioned million people somebody
Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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.
I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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.
work
You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.