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Iris Apfel

1921 - 2024

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Iris Apfel ( AP-fəl; née Barrel; August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iris Apfel is the 26th most popular designer (up from 28th in 2019), the 1,748th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,772nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Iris Apfel ranks 26 out of 104. Before her are Georg Elser, Exekias, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Thomas Chippendale, Jony Ive, and Battista Farina. After her are Philippe Starck, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Raymond Loewy, Pierre Balmain, Manolo Blahnik, and Josiah Wedgwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Iris Apfel ranks 85. Before her are Harry Carey Jr., Paul Watzlawick, Viktor Kulikov, Donna Reed, Miklós Jancsó, and James Clavell. After her are Thomas Schelling, Seretse Khama, Giovanni Benelli, Louis Jourdan, Stanley Ho, and Philippe de Gaulle. Among people deceased in 2024, Iris Apfel ranks 83. Before her are Marcello Gandini, Daniel Dennett, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Fraser Stoddart, Gustavo Gutiérrez, and Seiji Ozawa. After her are Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Geneviève Grad, Silvia Pinal, Richard Serra, Issa Hayatou, and Martin Karplus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Iris Apfel ranks 1,748 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Farnsworth (1920), Robert Sheckley (1928), Abigail Adams (1744), Alan Kay (1940), Gerald Carr (1932), and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897). After her are Snoop Dogg (1971), Linda Evans (1942), Dionne Warwick (1940), Tom Lister Jr. (1958), Owen Garriott (1930), and Kendall Jenner (1995).

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Among DESIGNERS In United States

Among designers born in United States, Iris Apfel ranks 2. Before her are Steve Jobs (1955). After her are Betsy Ross (1752), Milton Glaser (1929), Syd Mead (1933), Paul Rand (1914), Ruth St. Denis (1879), Alan Freed (1921), Ollie Johnston (1912), Norman Bel Geddes (1893), Colleen Atwood (1948), and Marc Davis (1913).

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