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Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel

March 4, 2024 by Lesley Truffle

  Iris Apfel   ‘I’m not pretty and I’ll never be pretty, but it doesn’t matter. I have something much better, I have style.’                                                                         Iris Apfel 1921-1924   Iris Apfel, interior designer, model and fashionista has died at the age of 102.  Her life was lived magnificently. Iris and her husband Carl Apfel owned … [Read more…]

Posted in: Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, popular culture, Social Comment Tagged: America, American fashion designer, Apfel, fashionista, Iris Apfel, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Style, USA Fashion

The Elixir of Youth

July 14, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

The Elixir of Youth   ‘Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve’. French fashion designer Coco Chanel   Many of us believe that in today’s era of Botox and extreme cosmetic surgery, Chanel’s statement no longer applies. A scan of Hollywood’s red carpet affairs, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Fashion, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment Tagged: Beauty, Beauty Myth, Casanova, Chanel, Coco Chanel, elixir of youth, Giacomo Casanova, Good Queen Bess, Iris Apfel, plastic surgery, Queen Elizabeth 1, Virgin Queen

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