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02.03.2024 - 01:57 / variety.com
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Iris Apfel, who became a fashion icon known for her vast, colorful, eclectic wardrobe and was the subject of Albert Maysles‘ 2014 documentary “Iris,” died Friday. She was 102. Apfel died at her home in Palm Beach, Fla., according to the New York Times.
Born in Queens, N.Y., Apfel worked for Women’s Wear Daily and became an interior designer starting in the 1950s, then ran the textile company Old World Weavers with her husband Carl, who died in 2015. She amassed a massive collection of clothing and accessories and in 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of her wardrobe called “Rara Avis: Selections From the Iris Apfel Collection.” It was the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to just one person’s clothing collection. The exhibition turned her into a celebrity, and she was featured in numerous articles and ad campaigns.
The 2007 coffee-table book “Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel” added to her fame. Apfel appeared in numerous ad campaigns and signed a modeling contract with IMG at the age of 97. Maysles’ documentary opened the New York Film Festival in 2014, then played theatrically in 2015.
“A joyous celebration of creativity and razor-sharp wit sustained into old age, as evinced by outspoken nonagenarian fashion icon Iris Apfel, ‘Iris’ also offers proof of Albert Maysles’ continued vitality as a documentarian,” said Variety‘s review. “Iris’ creativity lies not in inventing anything new, but in her startling assemblages of found objects. Her illustrious career as an interior designer included consultations with multiple successive inhabitants of the White House (her unspecified ‘problems’ with Jackie Kennedy are allowed to pass in charged silence), while
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Iris Apfel has died at 102 years old.The news was announced on Instagram on March 1 on official Instagram page. “Iris Barrel Apfel. August 29, 1921 - March 1, 2024,” the read.
Iris Apfel has passed away.
The colorful Iris Apfel, whose embrace of vibrant fashion was captured in a 2014 documentary film, died Friday at 102 at her home in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Guardian in a 2015 interview.“At that time you could ride the whole subway system for a nickel, so each week I would take a different section of New York — Chinatown, Yorkville, Harlem, Greenwich Village,” she told the outlet.She continued, “And I really fell in love with the Village. The Village was where I started to poke around antique shops and become enchanted with all this old junk.”Apfel studied art history at New York University before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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