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24. Feb. 2011 · Iris Apfel, 89, wurde als Iris Barrel in New York geboren und gilt immer noch als Stilikone. 2005 wurde sie vom Metropolitan Museum of Art mit einer Ausstellung geehrt. Ihren Mann Carl Apfel,...
Carl Apfel, a Textile Veteran and Husband to Iris Apfel, Dies at 100. 9 Photos. View Slide Show ›. Bruce Weber. By Isabel Wilkinson. Aug. 26, 2015. There is a moment in the film “ Iris ” — the...
- Summer 1947: Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Meet in Lake George, New York
- October 11, 1947: Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Go on Their First Date
- November 25, 1947: Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Get Engaged
- February 22, 1948: Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Get Married
- Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Create Their Textile Company, Old World Weavers
- Iris Apfel and Carl Apfel Sell Old World Weavers
- September 13, 2005: Iris Apfel's Personal Collection Goes on Display at The Met
- July 19, 2015: Iris Apfel Shares Why She and Carl Apfel Never Had Children
- August 1, 2015: Carl Apfel Dies at Age 100
- August 31, 2015: Iris Apfel Honors Carl Apfel on Instagram
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The style icon met her husband in 1947, while they both were vacationing in Lake George, New York. In an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated, Iris shared that it was the first vacation she took that she paid for herself, using her earnings from her job as a copy editor at Women's Wear Daily. She also shared that they were both there with other pe...
About a month after they first met in Lake George, Iris went out with "an old beau" in New York City. On the way home, they stopped briefly outside of Bonwit Teller to look at the window displays. When Iris arrived home that evening, her phone rang — it was Carl. "And he told me he loved the hat I was wearing today, and that I had on a smashing sui...
A little more than a month after their first date, Carl proposed to Iris on Thanksgiving Day, though she didn't get a ring until Christmas of that year. In a documentary about Iris' life and career, aptly calledIris, it's clear that the couple were attracted to each other from the start — and shared a dry sense of humor. "There was something about ...
Less than three months after Carl's proposal, Iris and Carl got married. In Iris, she shared that she didn't particularly want to have a wedding. "I never wanted a wedding; I wanted to elope," she said as she looked through their wedding photos. "I said I'd rather have the money, but the parents and the grandparents wanted the wedding … It was a fa...
After a couple of years of marriage, Iris and Carl launched Old World Weavers. The textile company specialized in restoring furnishings for homes. In Iris, Carl proudly shared that Iris had a natural talent when it came to sourcing materials and styling them. "I would go along with her. I'd take my little toolbox, hang the pictures," he said. "And ...
After several decades, the couple made the decision to sell Old World Weavers to Stark in 1992. However, they stayed on with the company for 13 years after the sale. Reflecting on the success of Old World Weavers in a 2018 interview with CNBC, Iris said, "I never thought that I couldn't do something because I was a woman. I wanted to start a fabric...
Iris' unique personal collection of clothes and accessories became an exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled Rara Avis: Selections from the Iris Apfel Collection. It came together when Harold Koda, the curator of the Met's Costume Institute, had a previously-scheduled show fall through. He reached out to Iris, who agreed to gift some of ...
Speaking toThe Guardian, Iris said that running Old World Weavers meant that she and Carl were constantly traveling to source materials, which is part of the reason why they didn't have children. "I don't believe in a child having a nanny, so it wasn't what we were going to do, but also having children is like protocol. You're expected to. And I do...
A few days before his 101st birthday, Carl died on Aug 1, 2015. Speaking to the New York Times, Iris shared, that her husband was "a very generous man, and a very funny man. He had a great, dry sense of humor and he was very kind to everybody." Designer and close friend of the Apfels, Duro Olowu, also spoke to the paper about Carl. "Carl was a wond...
Iris honored her husband with an Instagram tributea few weeks after his death. Alongside a photo of Carl wearing a colorful pair of green and blue pants with a black sweater tied around his shoulders, she wrote, "Carl left us to heaven on August 1st."
Learn how Iris Apfel met her late husband Carl Apfel in 1947, married him in 1948, and spent nearly 70 years together. Discover their career, travels, and legacy in this comprehensive timeline of their romance.
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1. Nov. 2017 · As inspiring as Apfel's personal style is her decades-long love story with her husband Carl. The couple spent almost 70 years together, during which time they created their own textile...
Februar 1948 heiratete sie Carl Apfel (1914–2015), mit dem sie 1950 die Textilfirma Old World Weavers gründete, in der sie bis zu ihrer Pensionierung 1992 tätig war. Während dieser Zeit hatte sie auch Aufträge für das Weiße Haus in Washington, D.C. Das Ehepaar Apfel blieb bis zu Carls Tod im Alter von 100 Jahren verheiratet.
26. Aug. 2015 · Carl Apfel, who was married to style icon Iris Apfel and appeared in the documentary Iris, has died at 100. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, Pret-a-Reporter has confirmed. The...
Die berühmte Designerin und Stil-Legende Iris Apfel ist im Alter von 102 Jahren verstorben. Sie war mit Carl Apfel verheiratet, der 2015 kurz vor seinem 101. Geburtstag starb.
