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I was never hurt by what anybody said about my clothes, because I dress to please myself. If somebody doesn’t like what I’m wearing, it’s their problem, not mine

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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Interior Designer
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Queens
New York
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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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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
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If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.
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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 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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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
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You can't just say, I'm gonna have style. You have to work at it. It's intuitive some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.
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It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.
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The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.
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I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed, don't you?
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You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.
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You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
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Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.
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More is more and less is a bore.
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I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
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The world is always full of promise.
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First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.
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I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.
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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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