IRIS (2014)

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. 

"Iris is an artist. What she uses her clothing and accessories to do is compose a new vision." - Harold Koda, curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum

[On New Yorkers] - "They think they're stylish, but all they wear is black. That's not style, that's a uniform." - Iris Apfel

"I like individuality. There's so much sameness these days. It's so homogenized. I hate it." - Iris Apfel

Iris and her husband Carl ran a textile firm, known as Old World Weavers. Their business took them all around the world - which is where Iris assembled her remarkable collection of clothing.