Iris Apfel
I don't have too much time to shop. I have such a back log of stuff at home. I tend to get temperative once in awhile. I don't need anything, so if I see something that knocks me out, then I'm buying it. It's getting harder and harder because things are getting more homogenized.Collection: Home
When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.Collection: Fun
My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits.Collection: Mother
I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.Collection: Moving
I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.Collection: Fashion
Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!Collection: Attitude
I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.Collection: Thinking
Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.Collection: Jewelry
Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.Collection: Real
I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.Collection: Wanted
Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.Collection: Said
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!Collection: Discovery
These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.Collection: Thinking
My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.Collection: Looks
In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.Collection: Past
The world is always full of promise.Collection: Promise
People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."Collection: People
Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.Collection: Long
I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.Collection: Path
I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.Collection: Stupid
I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever I think I should do and go with it, and if people like it, then I'm very happy about it. And if not, I always figure it's their problem not mine.Collection: Thinking
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.Collection: Thinking
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'Collection: Morning
I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.Collection: Husband
Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.Collection: Lasts
I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed, don't you?Collection: Thinking
My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.Collection: Space
When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.Collection: Home
I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.Collection: Eyeglasses
I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.Collection: Summer
It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.Collection: People
I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go.Collection: Clothes
I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.Collection: Forget
The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.Collection: Fun
It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.Collection: Important
I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.Collection: People
If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.Collection: Thinking
I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.Collection: Events
My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create a million different looks. She taught that to me, which I think was invaluable.Collection: Mother
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.Collection: Style
My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.Collection: Mother
I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.Collection: Art
I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.Collection: Inspiration
I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.Collection: Minimalist
Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne.Collection: Dream
It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.Collection: Well Dressed
You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.Collection: Life Changing
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.Collection: Years