I remember first reading about Iris Apfel on a livejournal community AGES ago when I was in middle school and livejournal was still considered cool. Someone had scans of her Rare Bird of Fashion exhibit, which I immediately saved and meticulously organized on my harddrive (the highest honor 14-year-old me could give). I haven't ever followed her closely, but she'll pop up time and time again throughout my internet adventures and I'm reminded that there is a magical woman named Iris who lives in New York and has two apartments and a storage loft full of clothes.
So I pretty much died of happiness when I found out that
a) Albert Maysles (aka co-director of my #1 fave documentary Grey Gardens) just made a doc about Iris
b) My One and Only, Netflix (TM) had it available for streaming last week
I watched it. It was amazing.
