Captures the original taste of favor maverick Iris Apfel and her exuberantly idiosyncratic private elegant.
With exceptional panache and discernment, Iris Apfel combines kinds, colours, textures, and styles with out regard to length, provenance, or aesthetic conventions. She is a novel taste icon.
Over 90 luxurious colour plates, photographed via Eric Boman, blow their own horns a number of Apfel’s ordinary clothes on wittily posed mannequins, a few wearing her trademark oversized spectacles. The originality of her taste is generally found out in her blending of Dior high fashion with flea-marketplace reveals, Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers with 19th-century ecclesiastical vestments, purple Lanvin worn with ropes of Navajo turquoise. Apfel’s eclectic items may come from a Parisian couture space, an American thrift retailer, or a North African souk, or they’ll were made to her personal layout in a tiny studio.
Specified captions describe each and every facet of the clothes, together with names and dates of designers, plus complete data on materials and equipment. A number of audacious equipment additionally comes underneath the highlight: a massive necklace fabricated from endure claws, a flip-of-the-century Indian horse decoration worn as a necklace, a parrot’s-head brooch in coloured glass and rhinestones.
The ebook contains an advent via Harold Koda, director of the Dress Institute on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, and an essay via Apfel herself, describing her lifelong love affair with taste and illustrated with antique pictures from her private assortment. 169 pictures and illustrations, 149 in colour
