Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too.
Iris ApfelI'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
Iris ApfelI think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must Have.' Why must you have them? They're a 'must' for some people, but for some they're not. It's silly. Again, it's all a matter of knowing who you are. You'll never run out of ideas once you do. But it's hard work and some people don't want to put in the time or effort. So they don't. And that's their issue. I don't sit in judgment on how they look.
Iris ApfelI donโt expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Iris ApfelIf you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school with came to middle age as frumps, because they just got by with their pretty faces, so they never developed anything. They never learned how to be interesting. But if you are bereft of certain things, you have to make up for them in certain ways. Don't you think?
Iris Apfel