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I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

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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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
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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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Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.
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Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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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 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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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 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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More is more and less is a bore.
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The world is always full of promise.
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The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.
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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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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
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I never just went to look for clothes and style I always find that wherever I go.
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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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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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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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