Fashion Icon with an eccentric personal style

Former interior designer, Journalist of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) and fashion Icon Iris Apfel definitely makes bold fashion choices. She has become a great inspiration to many fashion designers, fashion editors and photographers. Since Apfel‘s show of her clothes at the Metropolitan museum’s costume institute her unorthodox composition of clothes has taken the world of style by storm. She manages to mix high end and low end fashion pieces. She has been melding flea markets finds and haute couture way before it was considered fashionable to do it. She has a very remarkable personal style which allows her to combine rich colours, textures and patterns.

Iris  Apfel is a big fan of ethnic jewellery. She has recently launched her jewellery range. Her jewellery collection is natural, eclectic and fun. Her focus is on a high quality product with bold statements pieces, most made from natural materials and reflects Apfel’s unique approach.

MY BEST QUOTES by OUTSPOKEN IRIS APFEL

·         I can’t tell people how to have style.

·         You can’t try to be somebody that you are not that is not style.

·         No amount of money can buy you style.

·         You have to learn to be who you are first and that is painful.

·         When I walk down 5^th Avenue in the summertime I just want to throw up.

·         People should be jailed for being badly dressed.

·         Understated jewellery is not for me.

·         Ten years ago people in New York where starting to look like slobs, now it’s an epidemic.

·         Clothes are not frippery. Properly done they can be an artform.

·         Fashion really is women’s liberation in many ways.

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