Growing old has never looked as wonderful as it does on Iris Apfel. The 93-year-old is a style icon—so much so that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her personal wardrobe in 2005. A retired textile mogul and interior designer who tweaked out the White House for nine different presidents, Apfel's style is mad, all color and huge jewelry draped over a slender frame and topped with her signature huge round glasses. She's a diligent magpie collector, equally at ease snatching up cheap baubles at a Harlem hole in the wall as she is having a brand new Oscar de la Renta coat boxed up at Bergdorf's. Her eye guides and propels her through life, and she's definitely having more fun getting dressed than you are.

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