Today I watched Martha Stuart and it was all about fashion....supposedly inexpensive bargain consignment shops. I think we do pretty well here in the South with places like Ross and The Orange Peel! Anyway, she had a guest on named Iris Apfel. I've never seen or heard of her but now I know all about her and she's got quite an eye for fashion, though perhaps a bit and some fun words of fashion wisdom...check out the article! Here are some of my favorite quotes and sections from the piece...
“If they don’t fit, ill turn them into pillows.”
“If you hear anyone say I'm dead, tell them: 'No, she's very much alive and just walking around to save funeral expenses.'"
"There's a sad lack of glamour in the world today," Apfel mourns. "And there's absolutely no fantasy."
“She once wanted to show Apfel some of her collection, and when she took out "this divine Geoffrey Beene dress", Apfel said: "Oh my God, you must have had so much fun wearing it!" The woman was horrified. She said: "Wear it!? This is part of my collection. You don't wear your collection!" Apfel said: "In that case I don't have a collection.”
“And wealth is in many ways a state of mind. Apfel asserts that she would never spend $700 on a handbag – not because she doesn't have $700 to spend, but because she doesn't think handbags should cost that much. Incidentally, she votes Republican. She is socially liberal, she explains, but fiscally conservative.”
“I had some doctors' wives, and one day one of them was wearing some beautiful alligator pumps. One of the ladies said: 'Oh my goodness, those are great-looking.' She said: 'Oh yes, two heart attacks.'" A couple of people had had to die, or almost die, in her husband's arms for those shoes. "So I took to wearing a black tunic with black stockings, high black boots, a hood. It was like a revolt."
"Doing your own thing is very good," Apfel concludes, "if you have a thing to do."
Fashion is like a big box of Lego to her."-Olowu
*Article written by Gaby Wood, The Observer, January 2010
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