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Iris Apfel Quotes

American - Businesswoman | August 29, 1921 -

Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

God Shopping Walking Oh Oh My God

Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

Aging Makeup Wrinkles You Look Know

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

Me Look Everything Zen Itch Between

I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.

Mother Confidence Hope Me Husband

I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

New York River City Bridge Boat New

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

Youth Fashion Dollars Mania Ladies

I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

Good Art Together Politics Economics

I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.

Beautiful People Think You Way More

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Dress Think You Like Everybody Else

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

Money Dress People Think Too Much

Colour can raise the dead.

Dead Colour Raise

I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

Time Day People Me Busy Every Day

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