Iris Apfel, the inside designer-turned-fashion icon who was recognized for her assortment of costume jewellery and love of daring colours, handed away on March 1, 2024. And whereas there can be many worthy tributes within the coming days remembering 102-year-old’s fearless sense of style, I would prefer to take a second to understand her signature magnificence look: massive, circle glasses and a vivid lip. 

Her documentary Iris, which got here out a decade in the past, is stuffed with quotable tidbits about her views on her personal look. “I am not fairly,” she mused on the time. “And I am going to by no means be fairly, nevertheless it does not matter. I’ve one thing significantly better. I’ve fashion.”

A 2015 interview with Attract make clear her extremely minimal routine: “I put on solely Cetaphil moisturizer and lipstick,” the road fashion darling shared. “Sheer lipstick will not be tolerable for me. Pink on the orange aspect or a surprising pink.”

However what Apfel was really did for the world of style and sweetness—past “having fashion” and carrying daring lipstick was rather more particular. We nonetheless reside in a world the place many ladies “of a sure age” really feel like they need to merely shrink into the background. However what Apfel selected to do was something however shrink herself. By merely current together with her snowy-white hair, vivid lip, and coke bottle glasses, she was proudly taking over house—and giving different ladies of any and all ages permission to affix her in doing simply that, too. 

Hopefully, it is a legacy that may proceed to develop and reside on.