The news of the death of the 102-year-old designer was announced on her social networks. Apfel achieved her greatest fame between her 80s and 90s.
Iris Apfel, the world’s fashion icon, died at 102. Born in the New York neighborhood of Queensthe designer, who was characterized by wearing her enormous owl glasses with which she was recognizable for miles, achieved her greatest fame between her 80s and 90s.
The news about the death Apfel informed her through her own social networks, where the designer had been active until the day before. “Iris Barrel Apfel, August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024“, they wrote in the publication along with an image of who calls herself a “geriatric starlet.”
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Iris Apfel He was born in 1921 into a Jewish family of Queens and studied art history. Furthermore, she as an extravagant interior decorator he helped renovate the White House for nine presidents, from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.
Recently and, after a series of decorations with signatures with signatures such as Citroën, Magnum, Happy Socks or MAChad managed to sign a new collection for H&M. The designer, with her cropped white hair, huge glasses and bright lipstick, became a permanent presence in the front rows of Paris fashion shows for more than half a century.
Apfel managed to fill two floors of his Park Avenue apartment with works by the great designers of the 20th century, which he collected throughout his years of life. In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of New Yorkorganized the first major retrospective of her wardrobe.
In 2014, the iconic fashion designer was the subject of a documentary film. He himself was directed by Albert Maysles and titled “Iris”. In 2015, after 67 years together, she lost her husband Carl, a textile industrialist, who died at the age of 100.
During one meeting, Apfel, who never shied away from color, urged the young women to abandon the “modern uniform of black tights or jeans with sweaters, boots and leather jacket”. Instead, she threw them the phrase: “Dare to be different!”
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