She was 102 years old and self-proclaimed the “geriatric starlet” of Queens.
Iris Apfel, thick glasses and colorful outfits, died this Friday, March 1, 102 years old in her home in Palm Beach, we learned on her Instagram account.
Followed by some 2.9 million subscribers, the fashion icon had won the hearts of her audience and still attended numerous fashion shows.
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Born in 1921 into a Jewish family in Queens, she studied art history before becoming passionate about fashion, amassing exceptional pieces in her Park Avenue dressing room.
In 2005, the Met museum in New York devoted a retrospective to his wardrobe.
“One day someone said to me: 'You're not pretty and you never will be.
But it does not matter.
You have something much more important: you have style", she often said. Ten years later, this time a documentary will be dedicated to her. Iris, "the rare bird of fashion", directed by Albert Maysles , traces her life: her love story with Carl Apfel; her business - the textile company Old World Weavers which she founded in 1950 with her husband.
Released in the United States on April 29, 2015, the documentary “IRIS”, by Albert Maysles, retraces the life of Iris Apfel.
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A beautiful tribute to the interior designer who contributed nine times to the White House renovation projects.
To the little girl from Queens, child of a mirror merchant and a clothing saleswoman.
Former fashion editor of
Women's Wear Daily
.
To the model for the makeup line that she had recently launched with the cosmetics brand MAC To the one who was eight years old and was already saying her first “help, I have nothing to wear!”
A tribute, finally, to the New York jet-setter.
Built around a dialogue between the pop grandmother and the director, this film is an opportunity to verify the meaning of the formula and the repartee of the one who did not hesitate to take out her pink satin thigh-high boots to parade at the parades, and who readily admitted not imposing rules of life on himself.
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IRIS,
by Albert Maysles, documentary released in the United States on April 29.
Release planned in France on Netflix and iTunes in May.
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