Iris Apfel Inspires and gives us all Permission to be Eccentrically Fashionable!

photo courtesy of: The New York Times

Iris Apfel's popularity only grows with age. Words cannot describe how much I adore this woman and her over the top fashion sense! This woman has inspired museum exhibitions, a coffee table book and fashion advertising campaigns with her more is more fashion credo! She is a true inspiration and I honestly hope that after years of surviving in this world that I will have the heart and bravery to dress just as I please. So I say, "Thank you Iris for your inspiration! It's almost as if your style gives me gentle permission to dress how I please no matter what. You seem to whisper to me, telling me delicately to ignore the judgment and have fun!"
 “I’m a geriatric starlet, my dear, don’t you know.” _Iris

'Women view her as a role model: “A lot of them have told me, ‘Now that I’ve met you, I feel so liberated.’ ” Secret eccentrics, they have learned, Mrs. Apfel maintained, “that when you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else.”' The New York Times.
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