Iris Apfel

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

— Iris Apfel

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

— Iris Apfel

The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.

— Iris Apfel

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

— Iris Apfel

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

— Iris Apfel

I just never want to completely grow up.

— Iris Apfel

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

— Iris Apfel

I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

— Iris Apfel

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

— Iris Apfel

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

— Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

— Iris Apfel

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

— Iris Apfel

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

— Iris Apfel

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

— Iris Apfel

My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.

— Iris Apfel

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

— Iris Apfel

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big;…

— Iris Apfel

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some…

— Iris Apfel

The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in…

— Iris Apfel

If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what…

— Iris Apfel

I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely…

— Iris Apfel

Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and…

— Iris Apfel

I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever…

— Iris Apfel

I don't have too much time to shop. I have such a back log of stuff at home. I tend to get…

— Iris Apfel

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever…

— Iris Apfel

The biggest mistake people are making when it comes to fashion is looking in the mirror and thinking you're somebody else. People…

— Iris Apfel

I think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must…

— Iris Apfel

My mother gave me very good advice years ago. I grew up in the Great Depression and she always told me to…

— Iris Apfel

I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't…

— Iris Apfel

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

— Iris Apfel

It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.

— Iris Apfel

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

— Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

— Iris Apfel

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

— Iris Apfel

There are absolutely no rules about style at all. Not for me.

— Iris Apfel

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

— Iris Apfel

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.

— Iris Apfel

I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

— Iris Apfel

When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.

— Iris Apfel

Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.

— Iris Apfel