Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Time
Shopping
Fashion
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Time
Stupid
Been
" I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery. "
Iris Apfel
People
Mystery
You
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Best
Do Your Best
Together
" Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening. "
Iris Apfel
Life
Wonderful
Threatening
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Effort
Life
Style
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Age
You
Earth
" I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it. "
Iris Apfel
Try
Think
Carry
" I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know. "
Iris Apfel
New York
Day
Internet
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Know
Man
Thought
" Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened. "
Iris Apfel
Happened
Expected
Kind
" I like to improvise. "
Iris Apfel
Improvise
Like
" 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. "
Iris Apfel
Aging
Look
Makeup
" 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?' "
Iris Apfel
Life
Courage
Change
" When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else. "
Iris Apfel
You
Like
Everybody
" You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well. "
Iris Apfel
You
Simple
Change
" You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. "
Iris Apfel
Talent
You
Work
" I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment. "
Iris Apfel
Things
Standard
Involved
" Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered. "
Iris Apfel
People
Society
Great
" 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
Dark
Century
Early
" I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations. "
Iris Apfel
Technology
Think
Life
" I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive. "
Iris Apfel
City
Boat
Bridge
" I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know? "
Iris Apfel
Morning
Me
Husband
" Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels. "
Iris Apfel
Me
Lucky
Jewels
" Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form. "
Iris Apfel
Art
Done
Art Form
" I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical. "
Iris Apfel
Depression
Love
Dress
" Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. "
Iris Apfel
Technology
Think
I Think
" I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired. "
Iris Apfel
Sometimes
Step
Inspiration
" My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. "
Iris Apfel
Itch
Zen
Me
" 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
Youth
Ladies
Mania
" I've always loved to help people, young people in particular. "
Iris Apfel
People
Always
Help