Who is Iris Apfel, fashion icon celebrating her 100th birthday?

The word “eccentric” was most certainly coined for her. Oversized black glasses, red lips, abundance of jewellery, decadent humour, looks in garish colors or prints of all kinds… One thing is certain, Iris Apfel does not go unnoticed. At just one hundred years old, she can boast of being an accomplished businesswoman, a talented interior designer and a true fashion icon. It is for all her reasons that the Swedish giant H&M has decided to pay tribute to her by imagining a new capsule collection, designed directly with her, to transcribe her unique style as faithfully as possible. A style that Iris Apfel very quickly defined, from her youth punctuated by art and fashion to her many trips to the four corners of the world.

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— Alex Thu May 27 01:16:31 +0000 2021

Born on August 29, 1921 in Queens, New York, to a father working in a company specializing in glass and mirrors and a mother who ran a clothing store, the young Iris very quickly sensitized to the world of the arts. After studying art history at New York University and attending art school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the young woman first worked for the newspaper Women's Wear Daily and for the interior designer Elinor Johnson, before becoming assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman. Many experiences that will lead her to start her own business, Old World Weavers, in 1950 with her husband, Carl Apfel (whom she married two years earlier), in the design and clothing industry, specializing in fabrics. old.