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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. "
Iris Apfel
Me
Up
Always
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" I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. 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 I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life. "
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" My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice. "
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" I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine. "
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" The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping. "
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" I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. "
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" I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe. "
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" I've always loved to help people, young people in particular. "
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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 like to improvise. "
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" I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear. "
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Wear
Got
" Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young. "
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Aging
Look
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" I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media. "
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Much
" My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory. "
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Mother
Child
Depression
" I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment. "
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Things
Standard
Involved
" There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful. "
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Paris
Different
" Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be. "
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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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God
People
Think
" I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure. "
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Public
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Doing
" 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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Time
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" I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers. "
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" People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right. "
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" I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan. "
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" The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is. "
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You
" Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style. "
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" You don't find out who you are unless you work at it. "
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" Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life. "
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Style
" Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. "
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" My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. "
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Me
" Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares? "
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