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The news was confirmed by Stu Loeser, a spokesman for her estate.
Iris Apfel celebrating her 100th birthday in 2021.
TheGrey Gardensdirector trailed Apfel haggling in Harlem (Im cheap.
What can you do on the coat?
In 2019, aged 97, she landed a modelling contract with IMG.
Iris and Carl Apfel in 2008.
I never had a proper agent, she toldWomens Wear Dailyat the time.
AfterIrisaired on Netflix, ApfeltoldVanity Fair: Im so delighted with the response, I cant get over it.
Theyre carrying on about me as if I invented penicillin.
Or, as she would have put it: More is more and less is a bore.
Magazines wanted to interview me, offers poured in to design fashion, jewelry, accessories.
Iris and Carl Apfel in 2008.
She made her very first purchase at 11.
I fixed on a brooch and thought it was the cats pajamas, she recalls inIris.
Another time, her mother gave her $25 to buy an outfit for the Easter Parade.
In the 40s I was probably the first woman to wear jeans, Apfel told Tavi Gevinson inIris.
All of a sudden I had a vision.
That was a very important lesson.
In 1947, she wore a black Norman Norell dress on her first date with Carl.
I get a lot of mileage out of my clothes, she toldVanity Fairin 2015.
Their clientele ranged from the U.S. State department to Jackie Kennedy and Greta Garbo.
Besides, she called herself the worlds oldest living teenager to the end.
Im amazed at my life at this stage of the game, she toldThe Timesin 2019.
It is like living in a fairy tale.
