Rachel Syme on the style icon Iris Apfel, who rose to fame as an octogenarian for her audacious fashion and who recently died at a hundred and two.
It was all a fluke, really, or perhaps just exquisite timing. In 2005, the fashion curator Harold Koda, who was then running the Costume Institute, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, found himself with an opening in his fall exhibition schedule after a show he’d been planning fell through.
Loehmann told Apfel that she had been watching her intently as she shopped over the weeks, and that she had come to a conclusion. “You’re certainly no beauty,” she said, “but you’ve got something much better—you have style.” Years later, after I became a freelance writer, I reached out to Apfel about the possibility of writing a story about her late ascendancy. I wanted to ask her what it meant to live long enough to see your wild whims become an institution of sorts.
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