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Rare Bird of Fashion The Irreverent Iris Apfel

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ISBN-10: 0500513449

ISBN-13: 9780500513446

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric Boman, Harold Koda, Harold Koda

List price: $65.00
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Captures the unique style of fashion maverick Iris Apfel and her exuberantly idiosyncratic personal chic. With remarkable panache and discernment, Iris Apfel combines styles, colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, or aesthetic conventions. Now in her mid-eighties, she is a unique style icon. Over ninety sumptuous color plates, photographed by Eric Boman, show off a selection of Apfel's extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins, some sporting her trademark outsized spectacles. The originality of her style is typically revealed in her mixing of Dior haute couture with flea-market finds, Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers with nineteenth-century…    
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 4/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.37" wide x 12.40" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 3.102

Eric Boman is a photographer and writer, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House & Garden. His publications include Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel. He lives in New York.

Preface
Introduction
A Word, or Three or Four
South, West and North
At the Shows
Entrances and Exits
Distant Places, Other Times
Into the Night
Acknowledgments