Style icon Iris Apfel recently sat down with The Telegraph to talk about her greatest pet peeves in the fashion world. From everyday New Yorkers to celebrities — and even her late husband — this 90-year-old has a way with wit that we can't get enough of. Here's a bit of what she shares:
She wants to throw up walking down Fifth Avenue in the summertime due to overweight, ugly people taking the cake for wearing the fewest articles of clothing. "The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts from here to Poughkeepsie. I always say they should put people in jail for wearing clothes like that."
According to Apfel, an attempt to dress as someone other than yourself does not count as having style. "No amount of money can buy you style; it's just instinctive," she said. "I think you have to be loose as a goose."
About her efforts in regard to, well, everything (including her ability to stop smoking like a fiend), she says, "I never do anything half-assed, shall we say, but I stopped because I felt like I was getting to be an addict. I've got very good willpower."
And, lastly, she offers words of wisdom for those who choose to remain stuck in their "bad-style" ways: "It's a free country — if you want to look like a freak, that's your problem."
How can you not love her blunt honesty?
Text Brittney Schering
Image Peabody Essex Museum
