American trend icon and businesswoman Iris Apfel has died at her house in Palm Beach, Florida aged 102.
The information was confirmed on her social media accounts within the early hours of Saturday morning and confirmed by her agent, who known as her “extraordinary” and mentioned she was the personification of favor.
No explanation for dying was given. She was final pictured celebrating the Leap Year on Thursday – which additionally fell on her 102nd-and-a-half birthday.
Born in New York in 1921, Ms Apfel was primarily an inside designer and have become a reasonable public determine because of a contract that noticed her and her husband Carl seek the advice of on interiors for the White House for six presidents.
But later in life, she captured consideration by her vibrant bohemian type – sporting irreverent, eye-catching outfits, mixing high fashion and outsized costume jewellry.
Ms Apfel’s fame blew up in 2005 when the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York hosted a present about her known as Rara Avis – Latin for uncommon chook.
She referred to herself as a “geriatric starlet”, she additionally frequently appeared within the type pages of the New York Times, was photographed for Vogue Magazine and featured in adverts for Coach, MAC Cosmetics and Kate Spade.
Ms Apfel amassed greater than three million followers on Instagram and one other 215,000 followers on Instagram.
She additionally designed a line of equipment and jewellry for the US Home Shopping Network, collaborated with H&M on a sold-out-in-minutes assortment of brightly-coloured attire, jewellry and footwear, put out a make-up line with Ciaté London, an eyeglass assortment with Zenni and partnered with Ruggable on flooring coverings.
Her type was additionally the topic of a documentary movie, Iris, directed by Albert Maysles.
Ms Apfel was pre-deceased by her husband Carl, who died in 2015 aged 100.
She was additionally an professional on textiles and vintage materials, and with Carl, owned a textile manufacturing firm, Old World Weavers, and specialised in restoration work, together with tasks on the White House underneath six completely different US presidents. Ms Apfel’s movie star purchasers included Estee Lauder and Greta Garbo.
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