With remarkable panache and discernment, Iris Apfel combines
styles, colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period,
provenance, or aesthetic conventions. She is a unique style icon.
Over ninety sumptuous color plates, photographed by Eric Boman,
show off a selection of Apfel's extraordinary outfits on wittily
posed mannequins, some sporting her trademark outsized spectacles.
The originality of her style is typically revealed in her mixing of
Dior haute couture with flea-market finds, Dolce & Gabbana
lizard trousers with nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments,
pink Lanvin worn with ropes of Navajo turquoise. Apfel's eclectic
pieces might come from a Parisian couture house, an American thrift
shop, or a North African souk, or they may have been made to her
own design in a tiny studio. Detailed captions describe every
aspect of the outfits, including names and dates of designers, plus
full information on fabrics and accessories. A selection of
audacious accessories also comes under the spotlight: a giant
necklace made of bear claws, a turn-of-the-century Indian horse
ornament worn as a necklace, a parrot's-head brooch in colored
glass and rhinestones. The book includes an introduction by Harold
Koda, director of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, and an essay by Apfel herself, describing her lifelong love
affair with style and illustrated with vintage photographs from her
personal collection.
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