Iris Apfel Quotes - Page 2

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• If there was a choice on spending a lot of money on accessories or dress, I always chose accessories. I think jewelry can change an outfit more than anything else.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Choices, Dresses

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• I just never want to completely grow up.

  Iris Apfel

  Growing Up, Want, Grows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.

  Iris Apfel

  New York, Good Life, Two

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• When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.

  Iris Apfel

  Fun, Might, Wells

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• My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits.

  Iris Apfel

  Mother, Simple, Black

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• I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Unhappy

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• Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

  Iris Apfel

  Attitude, Style

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• I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Time And Money, Better Off

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• Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

  Iris Apfel

  Jewelry

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• I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Eye, Creativity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

  Iris Apfel

  Wanted, Persons, My Own

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.

  Iris Apfel

  Said, One Thing

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• Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

  Iris Apfel

  Real, Mean, Style

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• If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
  the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
  And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Fun, Jail

  "Learn to layer up for a hot, sticky summer" by Invisible Woman, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The world is always full of promise.

  Iris Apfel

  Promise, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Discovery, Years, Shopping

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• I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.

  Iris Apfel

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Zest, Giving

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

  Iris Apfel

  Looks, Baroque

  "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."

  Iris Apfel

  People, Bigger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.

  Iris Apfel

  Long, Important, Dresses

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.

  Iris Apfel

  Path, Helping, Ifs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

  Iris Apfel

  Morning, Talking, Years

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• I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Vivid Imagination, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever I think I should do and go with it, and if people like it, then I'm very happy about it. And if not, I always figure it's their problem not mine.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, People, Style

  Source: www.elle.com

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