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Mrs. Apfel became a celebrity in her 80s after a 2005 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute celebrated her personal style. Tributes to the icon were quick to pour in from ...
In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition titled, “Rara Avis: Selections From the Iris Apfel Collection,” featuring 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from Iris’s decades-long ...
On September 13, 2005, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premiered the exhibition Rara Avis [Rare Bird]: The Irreverent Iris Apfel, showcasing her style. It was the museum's first time mounting an exhibit about clothing and accessories focused on a living person who was not a designer. [19]
Iris Apfel, known globally for her bold style and individuality, has died at 102. Her work appeared in the White House and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Iris Apfel, beloved style icon whose fame ...
Iris Apfel, who became a fashion icon known for her vast, colorful, eclectic wardrobe and was the subject of Albert Maysles’ 2014 documentary “Iris,” died Friday. She was 102. Apfel died at ...
Apfel’s public profile skyrocketed in 2005 when the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City curated a show dedicated to her, titled Rara Avis, which means “rare bird ...
By the time Apfel, Koda and his Met museum staff had finished exploring her labyrinth wardrobe, cupboards and storage boxes, they left with 300 outfits and hundreds of accessories.
Model T fire engine on display at museum. The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum opened in October 2001—the month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. The walls of the museum are filled with historical photographs on the department's history.