'Geriatric Starlet'- Iris Apfel

I totally love little old lady kookoo's so as a follow up on my Zandra Rhodes blog I shall introduce you to... Iris Apfel!!! 

Iris is a New York style icon known for her outrageous fashions, incredible jewelry and amazing glasses. 

She wears architectural clothes and has no interest in what she calls 'real jewellery'-Apfel’s wardrobe has just finished traveling the museum circuit in Newyork and at the age of 90 designing both a couture clothing line, and a line of costume jewelry. Apfel calls herself a 'geriatric starlet' and she likes to tell it like it is judging by the following quotes from a recent interview... on turning Lindsay Lohan down when the starlet asked Apfel to be her "fashion Guru", "I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this, you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first and that's painful."... and on the dress of New York's public 'Now when I walk down Fifth Avenue in the summertime I just want to throw up. It seems that the fatter and uglier people are, the fewer clothes they wear. The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts that go from here to Poughkeepsie' LOL.

 her home is as colourful and eclectic as her wardrobe...

Input, Output, Out of Office, eBay

i-D October 2007

Photographed by Ben Dunbar-Brunton

Model Rachel Alexander

 

pale blue door/ halloween + more....

teppanyaki heart

 

stuffed chicken ready fo' roastin'

 

enol, moon n emmett

 

druuuuuuuuunk

pale blue door w. emmett and dad.... 

3 coarse meal in Tonyt Hornecker's warehouse turned wonderland with a side of hilarious drag acts

on set of 'Happy Horror' vid with josh, louie n emily...

Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiners....

 

msg from agatha frank

 

brid, chris, ags, moon...spot the gender bender

 

agatha Frankenstein and tom fitzer

 

age gap. 

 

headless pelvis n pins

Fantastic Planet

Styling: Moon-Age

Photography- Emmett Green

Art Direction: Emmett Green/ Moon-Age

Assistants: Joanna Heng/ Louie Banks

Models: Grace and Ella at Profile

Make-Up: Ella's make-up by Patryja Grimm, Grace's Make-up by Jen Pike

Hair: Ella's hair by Louie Bank, Grace's hair by Lucy Spary, 

The look of 'Fantastic Planet' is modern mish-mash glam- bold, bright, blocked colours and prints, the look is kitsch and layered.  As a post-production technique, some shots are layered with seperate abstract

shots of various materials (by the team), including macro (extreme close up) images and light patterns . In the completed images, the abstract shots are rendered unrecognisable, and blend with the model

shots to create striking images with emphasis on relationships of shape, colour and pattern. 
The name 'Fantastic Planet' is derived from the rainbow wonderland constructed in the shoot as well as the awe inspiring nature of abstract macro-lense images that reveal the complexity of the world in which we live.