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hersoul-exclusif · 1 year

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girlsdressingrooms · 2 months

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Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024)

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

Six years after the Met show she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style.

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

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simsbyhellie · 1 year

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IX Landgraab upstairs 💰 quite fancy, for rich sims/ celebrities! not particularly matching the downstairs I posted, just had fun :)

Gallery ID: HellieDawn

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onebizarrekai · 3 months

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completely regular boys in secret life: the thrilling sequel (sessions 5-8)

#they get gayer when they turn red apparently #mcyt #life series #trafficblr #secret life #grian #smallishbeans #solidaritygaming #geminitay #ethoslab #art closet #I know jimmy went to gem's house to enchant but. him walking out covered in blood was way too funny to pass up

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laesposarica · 2 months

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toonzxy · 2 months

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Team Therapy!! 💙💜❤️🧡

#TMNT #TMNT 2003 #TMNT 2012 #ROTTMNT #don needs a walk in closet #2003 leo #2003 raph #2003 Donnie #2003 Mikey #they could probably make a store

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msterpicasso · 1 year

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@realraventracy

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paladinia · 5 months

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Posting 16-month HRT titties (ft. Necklace) and panty bulge for the gays and the theys and the thirsty mutuals

#transgender #mtf hrt #mtf #trans #t4t #t4t ns/fw #taking hornypost pics in my tiny apartment walk-in closet

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cozylittleartblog · 5 months

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i come in three exciting Fashion Flavors

#fashion #doodles #art #meme #self portrait #dat me #i forgot to draw some kind of logo on the shirt for autism but i become a walking pinboard for Things I Like #i was never good at Clothes until recently so i just bought a bunch of black t shirts with Images on them #and that is still like 70% of my closet SDJHFSDHFJJH #forgot i drew this it's only a few months old but worth posting #and yes i have all three of these. EXCEPt those exact alien socks #i do have alien socks they just don't look like that

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thebramblewood · 1 month

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A lady vampire may be forced to spend half her day cooped up inside a dark coffin, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't always look her best. After all, you never know when an unexpected snack guest might arrive. And if you see a spot or two of blood... well, that's quite frankly none of your business!

CC linked below the cut!

Look 1: top + bottom + accessory bra / slippers / nails / towel (Spa Day)

Look 2: top + bottom / accessory robe / earrings / hair

Look 3: outfit (Simtimates) / blood 1 2 3 / hair

Look 4: outfit / accessory robe / hair

Look 5: outfit (Vintage Glamour)

Look 6: top / bottom / accessory robe / eye mask

Look 7: top + bottom

Look 8: outfit / hair

Look 9: outfit / hair