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I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.
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In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I'm delighted that gay people now want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.
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I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.
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I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.
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It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.
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I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.
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I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time
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I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
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If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you.
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I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.
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The world is always full of promise.
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When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.
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To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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More is more and less is a bore.
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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
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I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.
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I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big they don't fit into smaller bags.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
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I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
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