Quotes from Iris Apfel

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't been fashion then it would have been something else.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

I just roll with the punches.

I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

Colour can raise the dead.

I call myself a geriatric starlet.

If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.