Fashion icon Iris Apfel died on Friday March 1 at the age of 102. Only two days ago, she celebrated her 102 and a half years on Instagram: now, the announcement of her death can be read on the social network under a photo which represents her in a long golden dress and large black glasses. Her last work was a collection for H&M, but over the years she has worked for Citroën, Magnum, Happy Calze and Mac. Iris had 2.9 million followers on Instagram and was always parading around in her wheelchair. She was born in 1921 to a Jewish family in New York. He then studied art history before becoming an interior designer. “One day, someone said to me, 'You're not pretty and you never will be, but that's okay, you have something much more important: you have style,'” -she said. In 2016, she was the protagonist of an exhibition at the Bon Marché in Paris, the face of a Citroën advertising campaign, as well as an Australian ready-to-wear brand, Blue Illusion. In 2015, after 67 years of living together, she lost her husband Carl, a textile industrialist who died at the age of 100.
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