Iris Apfel

Fun facts about the Fashion Icon:

• Beloved for her eccentric stacking of jewelry accessories, furs and colorful clothing, she spends a lot of her time teaching young designers the importance of fashion history. Her belief is that in order to be able o break the rules, you need to first master them.

• She founded Old World Weavers with her husband Carl to recreate textiles from the beginning of the 19th Century.

• She has consulted on interior design for 9 administrations of the White House.

• She is the only person over the age of 100 to have more than 1M followers on Instagram.

• “More is more and less is a bore” is her famous mantra.