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Fashion icon Iris Apfel has passed away at the age of 102

Politiko 2024-03-02 12:39:22

Fashion icon Iris Apfel has passed away at the age of 102

Iris Apfel Iris Apfel, the fashion icon and interior designer whose Instagram bio tells a lot, has died at the age of 102.

Stu Loeser, a spokesman for her estate, confirmed her death.

Apfel in her 80s and 90s set the loudest trends: a colorful Bill Blass jacket and goatskin boots; a fluffy evening coat of red and green turkey feathers with knee-length cut suede trousers; a 19th century Chinese brocade rose angora sweater and panel skirt set.

Her accessories could be a bejeweled mask or a necklace of jade beads that dangle down to her knees, a pewter bag in the shape of a terrier, furry scarves wrapped around her neck like a bunch of pythons.

Born in Astoria in Queens, New York in 1921, Apfel became a collector at age 12 in a Greenwich Village basement, where she bargained for a brooch that became the first of countless pieces she acquired throughout her life. of her. She would eventually become a legendary moneylender.

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