{{Short description|American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Iris Apfel | image = Iris Apfel at MIFF (cropped).jpg | caption = Apfel in 2015 | birth_name = Iris Barrel | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|8|29}} | birth_place = Queens, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|3|1|1921|8|29}} | death_place = Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. | resting_place = Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, New York | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * New York University * University of Wisconsin }} | occupation = {{hlist|Businesswoman|interior designer|fashion designer|model}} | years_active = 1950–2024 | spouse = {{Marriage|Carl Apfel|1948|August 1, 2015|reason=died}} }}
'''Iris Apfel''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|p|f|ɛ|l}} {{respell|AP|fəl}};<ref>[https://youtube.com/v3XAEfzZl4o YouTube Video] {{dead link|date=March 2024}}</ref> {{nee|'''Barrel'''}}; August 29, 1921{{snd}}March 1, 2024) was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary ''Iris'', then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.
==Early life== Born Iris Barrel in to a Jewish family in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on August 29, 1921,<ref name="McFadden2024">{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=March 2, 2024 |title=Iris Apfel, Eye-Catcher With a Kaleidoscopic Wardrobe, Dies at 102 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/fashion/iris-apfel-dead.html |access-date=March 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302005844/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/fashion/iris-apfel-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Apfel was the only child of Samuel Barrel (1897–1967), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye "Syd" Barrel (née Asofsky, 1898–1998), who owned a fashion boutique.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3663531/Anything-goes.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Heather | last=Hodson | title=Anything goes | date=March 3, 2007 | access-date=April 2, 2018 | archive-date=October 12, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012172758/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3663531/Anything-goes.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/119318/iris-apfel-a-jewish-collector-of-great-style/|title=Iris Apfel: a Jewish Collector of Great Style|date=November 20, 2009|work=The Jewish Daily Forward|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=May 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510160843/http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/119318/iris-apfel-a-jewish-collector-of-great-style|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her grandfather Morris Barrel (born Mayer Baril) emigrated from Kamianka-Buzka, Galicia (now Ukraine).<ref>''Galicia, Ukraine, Jewish Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1789–1905''</ref>
Although raised on a farm by her parents and grandparents, she often rode the subway into the city to explore Manhattan, where she fell in love with Greenwich Village.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Conner|first=Megan|date=July 19, 2015|title=Iris Apfel: 'People like me because I'm different'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/jul/19/iris-apfel-interview-designer-fashion-film|url-status=live|access-date=April 18, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=April 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401092324/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/jul/19/iris-apfel-interview-designer-fashion-film}}</ref> While still a child, she shopped its antique shops, starting her extraordinary collection of jewellery from around the world.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Vargas |first=Chanel |date=November 1, 2017 |title=Iris Apfel and Her Husband Carl's Adorable Love Story |url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/a13122155/iris-apfel-carl-apfel-love-story/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125003345/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/a13122155/iris-apfel-carl-apfel-love-story/ |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |access-date=April 18, 2021 |website=Town & Country |language=en-US}}</ref> During the Depression, her whole family could sew, drape, glue, and paint, and had a flair for design and style on the smallest of budgets.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horwell |first=Veronica |date=March 3, 2024 |title=Iris Apfel obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/03/iris-apfel-obituary |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Apfel studied art history at New York University and attended art school at the University of Wisconsin.<ref name=businessoffashion.com>{{cite web|title=Biography|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/iris-apfel|website=businessoffashion.com|publisher=The Business of Fashion.|access-date=October 28, 2016|archive-date=April 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422160121/https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/iris-apfel|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Career== As a young woman, Apfel worked as a copywriter for ''Women's Wear Daily,'' earning $15 a week, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson,<ref name="McFadden2024" /> decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items.<ref name=":2" /> She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.<ref name="telegraph1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.homejournal.com/en/people/Iris-Apfel%E2%80%99s-One-Tip-on-Decorating-the-Home/45/ |title=Iris Apfel's One Tip on Decorating the Home |first=Johna |last=Baylon |date= February 25, 2019 |website=Home Journal |access-date= March 2, 2024}}</ref>
On February 22, 1948, she married Carl Apfel. Two years later, in 1950, they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialised in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.<ref name="cnbc" /> The business's New York showroom was located at 115 East 57th Street in Manhattan.<ref name="cnbc" /> Over her career, Iris Apfel took part in a variety of design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.<ref name=cnbc /> She found the White House contract to be among the easiest of Old World Weavers' clients, as they generally wanted only to replicate what had previously been in place.<ref name=":2" /> The one exception, Apfel said, was Jacqueline Kennedy. Apfel recalled: "She employed a very famous Parisian designer to gussy up the house and make it a real Frenchie, and the design community went bananas. After that we had to throw it all out and start again. But I did like Mrs. Nixon. She was lovely."<ref name=":2" />
Through their business, the couple began travelling all over the world where Apfel also bought pieces of non-Western, artisanal clothes. She wore these clothes to clients' high-society parties.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Anything goes|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3663531/Anything-goes.html|access-date = October 2, 2015|first = Heather|last = Hodson|work = telegraph.co.uk| date=March 3, 2007 |archive-date = October 12, 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181012172758/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3663531/Anything-goes.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
In 2011, Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rare Bird of Fashion—and Academia|url = https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/01/rare-bird-of-fashion%E2%80%94and-academia/|access-date = July 12, 2019|first = Lynn|last = Freehill|work = The Alcalde|date = January 2, 2012|archive-date = June 30, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170630100216/http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/01/rare-bird-of-fashion%e2%80%94and-academia/|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cns.utexas.edu/news/rare-bird-of-fashion|title=Rare Bird of Fashion—and Academia|author=Staff Writer|date=January 5, 2012|work=utexas.edu|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010246/https://cns.utexas.edu/news/rare-bird-of-fashion|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2016, she performed in a television commercial for the French car DS 3,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.autoevolution.com/news/iris-apfel-does-a-cool-car-commercial-for-the-ds3-facelift-105388.html|title=Iris Apfel Does a Cool Car Commercial for the DS3 Facelift |work=Autoevolution |date=March 9, 2016 |access-date=March 28, 2016 |archive-date=March 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329131838/http://www.autoevolution.com/news/iris-apfel-does-a-cool-car-commercial-for-the-ds3-facelift-105388.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and was the face of Australian brand Blue Illusion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2016/02/24/iris-blue-illusion-campaign/#dqgepdq40gqU|title=94-year-old fashion icon Iris stars in campaign for Australian fashion brand|author=Jenni Ryall|date=February 24, 2016|work=Mashable|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=April 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420165951/http://mashable.com/2016/02/24/iris-blue-illusion-campaign/#dqgepdq40gqU|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2016, Apfel announced a collaboration with technology startup WiseWear<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- BEGIN .hb-main-content --> |url=http://www.wisewear.com |title=Wisewear |publisher=Wisewear |access-date=June 26, 2017 |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709152928/https://wisewear.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> on an upcoming line of smart jewelry.<ref>{{cite press release |title=An Inside Look: WISEWEAR x IRIS Launch Party |url=http://blog.wisewear.com/articles/an-inside-look-wisewear-x-iris-launch-party/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831172448/http://blog.wisewear.com/articles/an-inside-look-wisewear-x-iris-launch-party/ |archive-date=August 31, 2017 |url-status=dead |publisher=Blog.wisewear.com |date=March 31, 2016 |access-date=June 26, 2017 }}</ref> HarperCollins published her biography ''Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon'' in 2018.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/iris-apfel-img-modeling-contract-scli-intl/index.html|title=Iris Apfel signs contract with IMG|first=Emily|last=Dixon|date=February 6, 2019 |publisher=CNN Style |language=en|access-date=February 7, 2019|archive-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190206210350/https://www.cnn.com/style/article/iris-apfel-img-modeling-contract-scli-intl/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2019, at the age of 97, she signed a modelling contract with global agency IMG.<ref name=":0" /> Seeing that she was frequently sought out for appearances, Tommy Hilfiger encouraged her to sign with formal representation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lockwood |first=Lisa |date=January 31, 2019 |title=IMG Signs on Iris Apfel: The 97-year-old tastemaker will be represented by the agency for modelling, endorsements and appearances |work=WWD: Women's Wear Daily |via=EBSCOHost}}</ref>
==Personal life== The Apfels did not have children, partly because of the frequent travel their work necessitated; she did not want her children to be raised by a nanny.<ref name=":2" />
Apfel and her husband Carl shared a favorite fragrance: Yatagan by Caron.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 7, 2014|title=Life Lessons with Iris Apfel|url=https://coveteur.com/2014/04/07/life-lessons-iris-apfel/|access-date=May 1, 2021|website=Coveteur: Inside Closets, Fashion, Beauty, Health, and Travel|language=en|archive-date=May 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501194107/https://coveteur.com/2014/04/07/life-lessons-iris-apfel/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Married 67 years, Carl died on August 1, 2015, aged 100.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carl-apfel-husband-style-icon-818044 |title=Carl Apfel, Husband to Style Icon Iris Apfel, Dies at 100 |website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Stephanie|last=Chan|date=August 26, 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2015 |archive-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928094748/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carl-apfel-husband-style-icon-818044 |url-status=live }}</ref> Apfel celebrated her 100th birthday on August 29, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/style/iris-apfel-turns-100-shares-life-lessons/|title=Iris Apfel Celebrates Turning 100 by Sharing Her Best Lessons on Love, Life and Plastic Surgery|access-date=November 30, 2021|archive-date=November 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130112357/https://people.com/style/iris-apfel-turns-100-shares-life-lessons/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Death=== Apfel died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 1, 2024, at the age of 102.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://fashiongtonpost.com/iris-apfel/|title = Life and Death of Iris Apfel|date = March 1, 2024|accessdate = March 1, 2024|magazine = The Fashiongton Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1090257339/iris-apfel-dies|title = Celebrated stylemaker and self-named 'geriatric starlet' Iris Apfel dies at age 102|last = Ulaby|first = Neda|date = March 1, 2024|accessdate = March 2, 2024|work = NPR|archive-date = March 2, 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240302021734/https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1090257339/iris-apfel-dies|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-02 |title=Morta a 102 anni Iris Apfel, l'icona della moda di New York - Moda - Ansa.it |url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/moda/2024/03/02/morta-a-102-anni-iris-apfel-licona-della-moda-di-new-york_9d1ece9f-1e76-476a-af52-e479602e8e13.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Agenzia ANSA |language=it}}</ref> She was interred at Beth David Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mymodernmet.com/iris-apfel-rip/ |title=Legendary Style Icon and Designer Iris Apfel Dies at 102, Leaving Behind a Colorful Legacy|first=Jessica|last=Stewart |date=March 5, 2024|website=mymodernmet.com}}</ref>
==Legacy== ===Museum retrospectives=== On September 13, 2005, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premiered the exhibition ''Rara Avis'' [Rare Bird]'': Selections from the Iris Barrel Apfel Collection'', showcasing her style.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rara Avis |url=https://localhost:5000/exhibitions/listings/2005/iris-barrel-apfel |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref> It was the museum's first time mounting an exhibit about clothing and accessories focused on a living person who was not a designer.<ref name=":0" /> The success of the exhibition, curated by Stéphane Houy-Towner,<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2005/rara-avis-selections-from-the-iris-barrel-apfel-collection|title=Rara Avis: Selections from the Iris Barrel Apfel Collection|work=metmuseum.org|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=January 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111110001/http://www.museumsusa.org/events/info/1864054|url-status=live}}</ref> prompted an initial travelling version of the exhibit at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumsusa.org/events/info/1864054|title=Norton Museum of Art Event Info|work=museumsusa.org|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=April 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414235843/http://www.museumsusa.org/events/info/1864054|url-status=live}}</ref> the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York, and later at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/21-rare_bird_of_fashion_the_irreverent_iris_apfel|title=PEM – Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel « Exhibits|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016060219/http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/21-rare_bird_of_fashion_the_irreverent_iris_apfel|archive-date=October 16, 2009}}</ref>
The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 20, 2011 |title=Iris Apfel for MAC |url=https://www.elle.com/uk/beauty/beauty-tips/g8531/iris-apfel-for-mac/ |access-date=March 2, 2024 |website=ELLE |language=en-GB |archive-date=October 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023040849/https://www.elle.com/uk/beauty/beauty-tips/g8531/iris-apfel-for-mac/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Documentaries=== Apfel was the focus of the Albert Maysles documentary ''Iris'',<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/life/fashion_style/2016/11/11/iris-apfel-goddess-of-style.html "Iris Apfel is the Goddess of style"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113041248/https://www.thestar.com/life/fashion_style/2016/11/11/iris-apfel-goddess-of-style.html |date=November 13, 2016 }}. ''Toronto Star'', November 11, 2016, Leanne Delap.</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8725284/Iris-Apfel-to-be-the-star-of-Albert-Maysles-documentary.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Sophie | last=Warburton | title=Victoria's Secret News | date=August 26, 2011 | access-date=September 30, 2013 | archive-date=January 9, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109091958/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8725284/Iris-Apfel-to-be-the-star-of-Albert-Maysles-documentary.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elleuk.com/star-style/news/first-look-iris-apfel-film|title=First look: Iris Apfel film|work=elleuk.com|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195458/http://www.elleuk.com/star-style/news/first-look-iris-apfel-film|archive-date=October 2, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.fr/mode/news-mode/articles/un-documentaire-sur-iris-apfel/9071|title=Un documentaire sur Iris Apfel|work=Vogue|access-date=April 27, 2016|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111005855/http://www.vogue.fr/mode/news-mode/articles/un-documentaire-sur-iris-apfel/9071|archive-date=January 11, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> which premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2014, and was subsequently acquired by Magnolia Pictures for US theatrical distribution in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/magnolia-pictures-acquires-iris-albert-maysles-nyff-documentary-20141024 |title=Magnolia Pictures Acquires 'Iris,' Albert Maysles' NYFF Documentary |date=October 24, 2014 |access-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109104613/http://www.indiewire.com/article/magnolia-pictures-acquires-iris-albert-maysles-nyff-documentary-20141024 |url-status=live }}</ref> She was interviewed in ''Advanced Style Film: Featurette'',<ref>[https://www.advanced.style/the-advanced-style-documentary-film-page#google_vignette ''Advanced Style Film: Featurette'']</ref> released in September 2014.
Apfel was also featured in the 2017 documentary ''If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvweek.com/in-depth/2017/04/if-youre-not-in-the-obit-eat-breakfast-a-celebration-of-vitality-after-age-90-hosted-by-carl-reiner-debuts-june-5-exclusively-on-hbo/ |title='If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast,' a Celebration of Vitality After Age 90 Hosted by Carl Reiner, Debuts June 5, Exclusively on HBO |publisher=TVWeek |access-date=June 26, 2017 |archive-date=May 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512004134/http://www.tvweek.com/in-depth/2017/04/if-youre-not-in-the-obit-eat-breakfast-a-celebration-of-vitality-after-age-90-hosted-by-carl-reiner-debuts-june-5-exclusively-on-hbo/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=((39 forlife)) |url=https://www.39forlife.com/8493-2/ |title=Experts share advice on aging gracefully in new HBO documentary |publisher=39 for Life |date=April 10, 2017 |access-date=June 26, 2017 |archive-date=April 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428120635/https://www.39forlife.com/8493-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Film=== It is believed that Iris Apfel was one of the inspirations behind the creation of the composite character Edna Mode who appears in the animated film ''The Incredibles'' and its sequel ''Incredibles 2''; the other inspirations were costume designer Edith Head, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine Anna Wintour, and actress Linda Hunt.<ref>BBC News television channel; 03/03/2024</ref>
=== Barbie doll === In 2018, Mattel created a Barbie doll in Apfel's image, making her the oldest person to ever have a Barbie made in her image<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19624313/iris-apfel-barbie/|title=Iris Apfel Just Became the Oldest Person to Have a Barbie Made After Her|last=Gonzales|first=Erica|date=March 28, 2018|magazine=Harper's BAZAAR|language=en-US|access-date=February 7, 2019|archive-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180050/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19624313/iris-apfel-barbie/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the recipient of the highest honor the Barbie brand bestows.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19624313/iris-apfel-barbie/|title=Iris Apfel Just Became the Oldest Person to Have a Barbie Made After Her |last=Gonzales |first=Erica |date=March 28, 2018 |magazine=Harper's BAZAAR |language=en-US|access-date=March 3, 2020|archive-date=September 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920233426/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19624313/iris-apfel-barbie/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Barbie, released in conjunction with Apfel's book, was not for sale, but Mattel also made two "Styled by Iris Apfel" Barbie dolls that were commercially available.<ref name=cnbc>{{cite news |last1=Clifford |first1=Catherine |title=Iris Apfel: 10 life lessons from a 96-year-old who is probably cooler than you |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/10-life-lessons-from-96-year-old-iris-apfel.html |access-date=May 1, 2021 |work=CNBC |date=March 30, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209061214/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/10-life-lessons-from-96-year-old-iris-apfel.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Awards and honors===
In 2013, she was listed as one of the fifty "Best-Dressed over 50" by ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The 50 Best-dressed over 50s |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2013/mar/29/50-best-dressed-over-50s |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |first1=Jess |last1=Cartner-Morley |first2=Helen |last2=Mirren |first3=Arianna |last3=Huffington |first4=Valerie |last4=Amos |date=March 28, 2013 |access-date=December 11, 2016 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623221843/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2013/mar/29/50-best-dressed-over-50s |url-status=live }}</ref>
Apfel was awarded the Women Together Special Award of the Year at the 12th Annual Women Together Gala held at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City, on June 7, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 16, 2018 |title=Iris Apfel Is 96. Now The Fashion Icon Is A Barbie Doll |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/396716/fashion-guru-iris-apfel-96-immortalized-as-barbie-doll/ |access-date=March 2, 2024 |website=The Forward |language=en |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302062638/https://forward.com/fast-forward/396716/fashion-guru-iris-apfel-96-immortalized-as-barbie-doll/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blacktiemagazine.com/society_june_2016/12th_Annual_Women_Together_Gala.htm |title=The 12th Annual Women Together Gala |first=Errol |last=Rappaport |website=Black Tie |access-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-date=December 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206112137/https://blacktiemagazine.com/society_june_2016/12th_Annual_Women_Together_Gala.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
In November 2016, Apfel was awarded the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her work in the fashion field at the United Nations in New York City.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.womenseday.org/community/wed-annual-pioneer-awards/ |title=Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization Pioneer Awards 2016 Winners |access-date=July 5, 2018 |author=Wendy Diamond |publisher=WED |archive-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180308/http://www.womenseday.org/community/wed-annual-pioneer-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Apfel was honored as The New Jewish Home's Eight over Eighty Gala 2017 honoree.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eight Over Eighty – Iris Apfel |url=https://jewishhome.org/honorees/iris-apfel/ |publisher=The New Jewish Home |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119084410/https://jewishhome.org/honorees/iris-apfel/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eight Over Eighty – Past Honorees |url=https://jewishhome.org/about-us/events/eight-over-eighty-past-honorees/ |publisher=The New Jewish Home |access-date=September 13, 2023}}</ref>
==Further reading== *{{cite book |last1=Apfel |first1=Iris |title=Colourful |date=2024 |publisher=Ebury Press |location=London, U.K. |isbn=9781529916164}}
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