Iris Apfel Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• More is more and less is a bore.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Bores

• Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Attitude, Keys

• I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

  Iris Apfel

  Confidence, Fashion, Here I Am

• When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

  Iris Apfel

  Inspiring, Fashion, Thinking

  "At 90, Fashion’s Latest Pop Star". Interview with Ruth La Ferla, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2011.

• Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Style

  "Sage Style Advice From Fashion Icon Iris Apfel" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. September 20, 2013.

• I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Unhappy

• If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
  the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
  And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Fun, Jail

  "Learn to layer up for a hot, sticky summer" by Invisible Woman, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

• When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Nice, People

• I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't been fashion then it would have been something else.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Ifs

  "Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong". Queerguru Interview, queerguru.com. 2015.

• There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: www.thegayuk.com

• If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you.

  Iris Apfel

  Girl, Fashion, Boys

  "Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong". Queerguru Interview, queerguru.com. 2015.

• I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Eye, Creativity

  Source: www.elle.com

• The biggest mistake people are making when it comes to fashion is looking in the mirror and thinking you're somebody else. People sit and watch the runway and then some nice little plump lady in Squeedunk will see Angelina Jolie in a very glamorous dress from the runway and she thinks if she buys that dress she'll look like her. It's sad, but it's true.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Mistake, Nice

  Source: www.elle.com

• The woman should learn who she is and what she looks like and try to find the best points of dress accordingly. I also think that being appropriate has gone out of fashion. There are appropriate times to wear appropriate kinds of clothes.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Has Beens

  "INTERVIEW: Iris Apfel, Fashion Legends Never Cease". Interview with Roger Walker-Dack, www.thegayuk.com. August 14, 2015.

• Sometimes I think fashion is going to hell.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Sometimes

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