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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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I like to improvise.
Iris Apfel
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
Iris Apfel -
The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
Iris Apfel -
Anything that's feathery-looking, I love.
Iris Apfel -
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Iris Apfel -
Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
Iris Apfel -
Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
Iris Apfel
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
Iris Apfel
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I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.
Iris Apfel -
I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
Iris Apfel -
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Iris Apfel -
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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