Iris Apfel, the interior designer, who has died aged 102, decorated the White House for nine American presidents, but was more remarkable for emerging as a “fashion icon” – or, as she put it, a “geriatric starlet” – when she was in her mid-eighties.
Her new celebrity was generated in 2005 when the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute put on an exhibition of her enormous collection of outfits and accessories.
