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Iris Apfel, Fashion Icon and Subject of Albert Maysles Documentary, Dies at 102
Iris Apfel, who became a style icon late in life and was the subject of Albert Maysles' 'Iris,' has died.
Apfel worked as an interior designer starting in the 1950s, then ran the textile company Old World Weavers with her husband, who died in 2015. The 2007 coffee-table book “Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel” added to her fame. Her illustrious career as an interior designer included consultations with multiple successive inhabitants of the White House (her unspecified ‘problems’ with Jackie Kennedy are allowed to pass in charged silence), while offbeat items stored in a massive Long Island City warehouse reflect a long, varied history of catering to more adventurous upscale clients,” the review continued.
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