The colourful Iris Apfel, whose embrace of vibrant trend was captured in a 2014 documentary movie, died Friday at 102 at her residence in Palm Seaside, Florida.
Her agent, Lori Sale, issued an announcement. “Iris Apfel was extraordinary. Working alongside her was the dignity of a lifetime. I’ll miss her every day calls, all the time greeted with the acquainted query: ‘What have you ever acquired for me at the moment?’ Testomony to her insatiable want to work. She was a visionary in each sense of the phrase.
“She noticed the world by way of a singular lens – one adorned with big, distinctive spectacles that sat atop her nostril. By these lenses, she noticed the world as a kaleidoscope of coloration, a canvas of patterns and prints. Her creative eye reworked the mundane into the extraordinary and her capacity to mix the unconventional with the elegant was nothing in need of magical.”
Apfel labored for Girls’s Put on Day by day and have become an inside designer, then ran the textile firm Outdated World Weavers along with her husband, Carl, who died in 2015.
In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork mounted an exhibition of her wardrobe known as “Rara Avis: Picks From the Iris Apfel Assortment.” It was the museum’s first exhibition devoted to only one individual’s clothes assortment.
That sparked a wave of curiosity in her, spawning the 2007 coffee-table guide, Uncommon Fowl of Vogue: The Irreverent Iris Apfel. added to her fame. She signed a modeling contract with IMG on the age of 97.
Albert Maysles’ documentary, Iris, opened the New York Movie Pageant in 2014, then performed theatrically in 2015.
No memorial plans have been introduced.
