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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.

Iris Apfel

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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 have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.
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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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Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.
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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.
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Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.
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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 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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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
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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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It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.
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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
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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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To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
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I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.
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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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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 just never want to completely grow up.
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