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Fashion icon Iris Apfel's surprising connection to Salem
Turning 101 this year, Iris Apfel still dresses to the nines — or make that the tens.
With her iconic oversized glasses, penchant for color, layers of heavy, bold jewelry and daring style, you know Iris Apfel even if you’ve never read Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue or Vanity Fair.
“Fashion is a perfect way to express yourself.
I think people should take advantage of that and not all want to look alike,” Apfel tells me in a phone interview.
Fashion, to Apfel, is personal expression.
“I don’t like trends,” Apfel says. “I don’t know why young people want to look like they belong to some kind of a tribe.”
Apfel has always been a tribe of one.
It’s why she has 2.1 million Instagram followers who love her confident, uniquely-Iris fashion choices.
(Her bio: “More is more & less is a bore.”)
It’s why, in 2005, at age 84, she became the first living person who was not a designer to have clothing and accessories exhibited