Iris Apfel died at the age of 102

Style icon, interior designer, and collector of unique accessories and outfits Iris Apfel died at the age of 102. Iris graduated from New York University with a degree in art history, worked on historical textile reconstruction with her husband Carl Apfel, worked on the appearance of the White House and the home furnishings of numerous celebrities, including Greta Garbo and Estée Lauder, and researched and collected Oriental and African textiles. and became one of the first designers to skillfully combine high fashion and everyday life in the most daring prints, colors and expressions. Apfel reached the height of her fame in the 1980s and ’90s, and has been a familiar face on Parisian fashion shows for more than half a century. In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosted an exhibition of Iris Apfel’s costumes with the telling title Rara Avis (“rare bird”) – the exhibition included her dresses, shoes, jewelry and personal items. In 2015, legendary documentary director Albert Meisels made a documentary film, Iris, about the life and style of a “rare bird” in the design world.