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Iris Apfel

American Businesswoman

Born: Aug 29, 1921

Fashion Life Me People Think You

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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters. Iris Apfel

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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations. Iris Apfel

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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate. Iris Apfel

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I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do. Iris Apfel

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I like to improvise. Iris Apfel

Improvise Like

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky. Iris Apfel

I just roll with the punches. Iris Apfel

Punches Roll Just

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. Iris Apfel

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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane. Iris Apfel

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. Iris Apfel

I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan. Iris Apfel

People Tell Always Very Large

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure. Iris Apfel

Documentary Doing Interested Public Public Figure Figure

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine. Iris Apfel

I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media. Iris Apfel

Social Media Instagram Look Social Much Media

People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?' Iris Apfel

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I call myself a geriatric starlet. Iris Apfel

Myself Call Geriatric Starlet

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse. Iris Apfel

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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones. Iris Apfel

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

God Shopping Advertisement Walking Oh Oh My God

I've always loved to help people, young people in particular. Iris Apfel

People Young Particular Always Loved Young People Help Help People

I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear. Iris Apfel

Clothes Collector Wear Got

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. Iris Apfel

Never Children Wanted

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care. Iris Apfel

Me World Care Pretty Badly Feel Like Most Person dont Care

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