Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. Iris Apfel More Quotes by Iris Apfel More Quotes From Iris Apfel Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too. Iris Apfel accomplishment intelligent thinking First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity. Iris Apfel trends important firsts I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any. Iris Apfel nice hot looks There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes! Iris Apfel shoes fashion thinking There are absolutely no rules about style at all. Not for me. Iris Apfel style If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you. Iris Apfel fashion girl boys I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world. Iris Apfel connections use looks I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't been fashion then it would have been something else. Iris Apfel fashion ifs thinking To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes! Iris Apfel shoes important world I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else. Iris Apfel has-beens fashion thinking I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself. Iris Apfel dresses When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't. Iris Apfel fashion nice people Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories. Iris Apfel accessories given choices If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything Iris Apfel get-away done hair I'm making a lot of noise as I walk. Iris Apfel walks noise You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty! Iris Apfel simple want years I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip. Iris Apfel numbers people thinking 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. Iris Apfel jeans clothes simple I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed. Iris Apfel dressing-up looks thinking Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne. Iris Apfel husband choices dream