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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
Businessperson
Interior Designer
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Queens
New York
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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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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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More is more and less is a bore.
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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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You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!
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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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I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.
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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
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I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.
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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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I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.
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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're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.
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I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.
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To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
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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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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.
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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
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