Iris Apfel, flamboya
ntly dressed icon, has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. Now at 93, she is front page news as the subject of a documentary film. Iris, by the late Albert Maysles. The New York Times tells us that “Apfel, star of fashion ads and museum shows holds your attention from the moment she appears. You can’t take your eyes off of her.”
She was big news on Long Island, too, in 2008 when she was the star of the “Iris Apfel, Rare Bird of Fashion” exhibit at the Nassau County Museum of Art. It featured her clothes, accessories and jewelry. It was a sensation. She was Shirley Romaine’s guest on Artscene on Long Island, together with the show’s curator Joanne Olian and Franklin Perrell, who was then a director at the museum.
The interview is being shown from Romaine’s Artscene archive on Fridays, May 15 and 22, at 6:30 p.m. and on Monday, May 25 at 3 p.m. on Cablevision’s Channel 20 and Verizon’s Channel 37.
“She looked great,” said Romaine, “and she had very interesting things to say about fashion as an expression of a woman’s persona.” Don’t miss it.
