“Life is grey and dull,” said Iris Apfel, one of fashion’s great eccentrics, in her New York drawl during the 2014 documentary by Albert Maysles on her life. “You might as well have a little fun dressing up.” She died on Friday, in her home in Palm Beach, Florida, aged 102 — and the self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” lived by her advice until the end.
Best known after she hit octogenarian status, Apfel became an unlikely fashion muse and champion of later life style thanks to her unique concoction of hunky, coral necklaces, cherry red mongolian lamb coats, clanging turquoise bracelets and, most famously, her signature round-frame glasses.
