Fashion icon Iris Apfel, 93, is subject of new documentary

SHE wears coke-bottle glasses, chunky vintage jewellery and peacock colours. Now the world’s most fashionable 93-year-old will star in a film released next month.

Ninety-three year old Iris Apfel has been rocking New York’s fashion scene for decades. Picture: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images.

SHE’S 93-years old. And way fresher than you.

New York style icon Iris Apfel, who has been rocking her unique look for decades, is the subject of a new documentary Iris to be released on 29 April.

It was made by Grey Gardens and Gimmie Shelter director Albert Maysles, 87, who has since passed away and covers the life of the interior designer who began dressing windows in her mother’s shop and rose to become the grand dame of New York’s fashion scene.

The trailer shows Iris recalling how she was told as a young woman: “You’re not pretty and you’ll never be pretty but it doesn’t matter. You have something much better, you have style.”

Since then, the woman with the coke-bottle glasses and penchant for chunky vintage jewellery who made a living supplying fabric to the White House has inspired millions of women worldwide with her more-is-more look.

She’s featured in dozens of magazines, movies and fashion shows over the years including the Metropolitan Museum’s 2005 “Iris Patel, Rare Bird of Fashion”. She’s even released a line for MAC cosmetics and had her apartment featured inArchitecture Daily.

She now works as a visiting professor at The University of Texas taking students on week-long tours of the fashion industry.

Iris opens in New York on 29 April 2015. See more of her incredible style below.

Iris told the New York Times she has no interest in normcore, obviously.

MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 03: Iris Apfel, Design Entrepreneur speaks onstage at the The New York Times International Luxury Conference at Mandarin Oriental on December 3, 2014 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The New York Times International Luxury Conference)

MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 01: Iris Apfel attends the Speaker Dinner presented by Mercedes-Benz during The New York Times International Luxury Conference at the Moore Building on December 1, 2014 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for New York Times International Luxury Conference)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 09: Fashion icon Iris Apfel attends the "Iris" photo call during the 52nd New York Film Festival at Walter Reade Theater on October 9, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

She was told as a young woman having style is much more interesting than ‘being pretty’.