{"id":17088,"date":"2015-09-13T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17088"},"modified":"2015-09-12T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T21:29:50","slug":"an-ageless-wonder-of-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17088","title":{"rendered":"An ageless wonder of fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Iris Apfel continues to be a trendsetter<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/KellyColumn415Newest815-251x300-251x300-251x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1179984\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/KellyColumn415Newest815-251x300-251x300-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"KellyColumn415Newest815-251x300-251x300\" width=\"210\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>In the spirit of celebrating New York Fashion Week, I wanted to highlight an unexpected face in the world of couture. One of my all time favorite trendsetters is Iris Apfel. This 90\u00adsomething year old spitfire is an expert in interior design and fashion. With a resume that includes time at Women\u2019s Wear Daily and completing several design projects at the White House, this icon is no shrinking violet when it comes to voicing her opinions. Recently interviewed for Vogue, Iris described her feelings about personal style\u2026<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cA woman should know herself, and know what she can afford, not only financially, but if she can carry it off. She should know whether she wants to invest her time in studying herself and experimenting\u2014it doesn\u2019t come from out of the blue. Personal style is attitude, attitude, attitude<i>. <\/i>It <i>has <\/i>to come from within. You have to develop things yourself. It takes a long time and it isn\u2019t easy. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Iris-Apfel-300x174.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1179983 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Iris-Apfel-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Iris Apfel\" \/><\/a>She goes on to stress that we should not compare ourselves to airbrushed teenagers on the cover of popular magazines. (Whew!) Every woman must take her own journey to find out what clothes will work for her and what will not work, no matter how \u201con trend\u201d they may be. She does recommend keeping a coiffed hairdo and wearing good shoes to ensure looking put together. And, she is not too keen on dressing down while at restaurants or the opera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">I couldn\u2019t agree more. Although, I\u2019ve never been to the opera, I would imagine that one should dress up to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Iris is still working (she just created a line for the online shopping network, HSN) and lecturing in her spare time. How has she managed to age so gracefully? She says \u201cI don\u2019t have any secrets. I always eat well\u037e I never eat junk food. I don\u2019t drink soda. I used to smoke four packs a day! But I gave it up\u037e I just quit one day. I don\u2019t do any exercises regularly. I don\u2019t drink heavily, but I do have a drink now and then.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">Sounds like a lady after my own heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">You can read the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/vogue.cm\/1Q9rXxC\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/vogue.cm\/1Q9rXxC<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Happy Weekend!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris Apfel continues to be a trendsetter By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times In the spirit of celebrating New York Fashion Week, I wanted to highlight an unexpected face in the world of couture. One of my all time favorite trendsetters is Iris Apfel. This 90\u00adsomething year old spitfire is an expert in interior design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[60,6581],"class_list":["post-17088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-featured","tag-fashion","tag-iris-apfel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17089,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088\/revisions\/17089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}