Iris Apfel, super eccentric New York fashion icon, Instagram star and high priestess before the eternal, died Friday at the age of 102. With 3 million followers on Instagram, the centenarian still attended the presentations of great fashion designers, in a wheelchair. Born in Queens, Queen Iris Apfel had studied art history, making her the cultured aging bimbo extremely rare in the profession.

An interior designer, she participated in renovations to the White House for nine presidents, from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. For decades, she had amassed clothes from the greatest designers of the 20th century, which fill two floors of her Park Avenue apartment. She used to say that someone had said to her one day. »You’re not pretty and you never will be, but that’s okay. You have something much more important: you have style.” So do it…

Face of a Citroën advertising campaign, as well as an Australian ready-to-wear brand, Blue Illusion, after 67 years of living together, she lost her husband, a textile industrialist, at the age of 100. A fan of colorful silhouettes, Iris Apfel called on women to use her mantra: “Dare to be different!” » If you are lucky enough to be different, never change. Our group extends our most sincere condolences to his family.

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