Jimmy Choo pays homage to Iris Apfel

Jimmy Choo weaves the tribal and ethnic literally and decoratively into its Spring Summer ’12 collection with IRIS. Inspired by the inimitable style of fashion innovator and doyenne of ethnic embellishment, Iris Apfel, Jimmy Choo has created the ultimate homage to the grande dame of idiosyncratic fashion. Apfel’s witty and exuberantly original style was singled out by the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who devoted an exhibition to her style entitled, “Rara Avis (Rare Bird): Selections from the Iris Apfel Collection”. Indeed, recognition is coming late in life for nonagenarian Apfel who will also be the subject of a documentary by famed filmmaker Albert Maysles.



Creative Directors Sandra Choi and Simon Holloway took inspiration from Apfel’s maximalist style and bold layering of tribal and ethnic jewelry. Hand-woven in leather macrame, the IRIS sandal is embellished with multi-coloured resin ornaments, an ode to the magpie style of the sandal’s namesake. The same multi-coloured cascade of resin and woven leather also appears in similar splendour on HOLLY a flat sandal and XARA, a fringed bag with woven wooden beads, a tassel of resin chip ornaments, and multi-coloured chain-link strap.








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Iris Apfel partners with MAC Cosmetics for colour collection

American businesswoman Iris Apfel has collaborated with MAC Cosmetics to produce an extensive collection inspired by her life and style. Iris has worked at Women's Wear Daily and for interior designer Elinor Johnson. Her and her husband launched textile firm Old World Weavers in 1950 and ran the business until 1992. During this time, Iris took part in many design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan and Clinton. Iris Apfel still consults and lectures about style as well as other fashion topics. In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premiered an exhibition about ther fashionable style entitled Rara Avis (Rare Bird): The Irreverent Iris Apfel.






The new collection comprises lipsticks, lip pencils, eye shadows, mascara, brow pencil, eye pencil, beauty powder and nail lacquers. Prices range from £9 to £14 and will be exclusively available online from January 2012.


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In 2005, Iris Apfel, a youthful octogenarian dubbed “one of America’s quintessential style-makers,” was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A rare bird” noted for her shamelessly powerful mix of high and low, Haute Couture elegance with flea market chic, Iris is not only an icon of great New York style. She’s a recycler. Her well-educated eye, in evidence during her long and distinguished career as an interior designer and co-founder (with her husband, Carl) of Old World Weavers, Iris has been featured in the New York Times already six times this year by fashion and society’s beloved street style photographer, Bill Cunningham.

Iris may be small, but her jewellery is big. With enormous confidence and stage presence, she wears; the jewels do not wear her. The time-honoured rule of dressing well, to take off one piece of jewellery before leaving the house, does not apply here. For Iris, more is more.



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LIMITED EDITION / An exclusive, high-end selection of jewelry, also newly-designed available in LIMITED EDITIONs ranging from two to six units per design with retail prices ranging from

PERSONAL / Unique pieces from Iris Apfel’s PERSONAL collection acquired and worn with love over the years.