The “oldest teenager in the world” is now 100

She is fashion icon, has over 1.7 million followers on Insta and can now.Celebrate birthday: Iris Apfel.Now the New Yorker has revealed which big dream she still wants to fulfill.

By Bruno Bötschi

29.8th.2021

Iris Apfel is the personified revenge of the old on the eternal youth craze, we wrote at this point a year ago.

And it is true: Hardly any other social media star has shown better in recent years that style is more important than beauty and that you are only attractive if you also have an interesting personality-especially in old age.

Momoll, the Ms. Apfel is a rather striking person.And that's good.

So the former interior designer likes to wear big round black glasses, her hair is bright gray and she loves extravagant-colored clothes.But before you even see them, that know that those who have already met, you can hear them - by juming their armchair.

«Ändern kann ich daran ohnehin nichts»

May their outfits sometimes seem arbitrary, they are not a coincidence."You have a style or not," Iris Apfel clarifies in an interview with the "Bild am Sonntag".

Maybe today she will clean up a little more today than she would do otherwise.After all, there is a milestone birthday to celebrate.The fashion icon from New York will be a whopping 100 years old..

We say: Congratulations.

Of course, such a round of cradle festival wants and should be celebrated."With a few friends, my dogs and a good piece of cake from my favorite bakery," said Iris Apfel.

Incidentally, she takes the age quite relaxed.What should she worry about it just because she will soon be in three digits, she explains in the "Bild am Sonntag" in the "Bild am Sonntag".«I can't change anything anyway.»

«Ein bisschen Glück war auch dabei»

Iris Apfel has been a face of New York society since the 1950s.Really known and declared the Grande Dame of the fashion scene, however, she was only in 2005 with the exhibition "Rara Avis: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

And because of a chance: When the museum bursts at short notice, it receives a call from the curator.Because apple is known for your armchair and necklaces, he wants to present your jewelry collection.Apple agrees and the show becomes a surprise success.

Iris Apfel, damals 8th4, wird so praktisch über Nacht berühmt.«I followed my passions all my life.A little luck was there too.But I never wanted to be a star, ”says the jubilee in the“ Bild am Sonntag ”.

But it is still today.

And it should come even better: at the tender age of 95 she receives a model contract with the IMG agency.There, among us, the three top models Kate Moss, Chrissy Teigen and Gigi Hadid are also under contract.

«Weisst du nicht, dass junge Ladys keine Jeans tragen?»

Well, for some people the elevator of the 100-year-old Iris Apple will probably be too colorful or too extravagant.These should be communicated, she also does not like everything that her fellow human beings on the streets are wearing.

She finds sneakers, for example, wonderfully - but only "if you go to the gym!", She said four years ago in an interview with the magazine "Spex".Likewise, flip-flops are a great thing-«in the shower!But running around on the street is just an insult ».

Denim, on the other hand, loves Iris apple very much.She was probably even the first woman in the United States wore jeans.And that came like this:

«It was in the late 1930s and I studied at the University of Wisconsin.Nobody wore jeans, but I had put myself in my head, jeans, a strengthened white shirt and a gangnam turban.I thought that would look stunning.So I went to a Navy Army store and asked for a few jeans.She threw me out and called: ‹Do you not know that young ladies don't wear jeans?› But I came back every day, and so that I finally rested, they finally sold me a few boys' jeans.Since then I've been living in jeans.You can simply combine everything with them.»

What Ms. Apfel will combine this Sunday, i.e. for the celebration with friends and dogs, is not yet known.On the other hand, it is known what the birthday child thinks of the number 100: "A wonderfully round number," she says in the "Bild am Sonntag", "I'm already looking forward to the next 100.»

Incidentally, it shouldn't be quiet in your life in the near future.She also has a big dream: «A trip to India.I was not there yet.But slowly it gets a little bit over time.»

And how does she want to be remembered when she leaves the catwalk of life?

«As the oldest teenager in the world.»

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