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The Most Inspiring Fashion Icons Over 50 Right Now

Behold the impeccably dressed women we hope to look like when we grow up

by Amanda Montell | COMMENT

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Iris Apfel, age 93 Her style: Vibrant, accessorized, humorous

"Style is attitude, attitude, attitude," said the lively, 93-year-old interior designer in a live New York Times interview last year. The Queens native and street style muse has lived a colorful near-century, down to her peacock aesthetic, which the Metropolitan Museum in New York exhibited in 2005, making Apfel a rarified celebrity at the age of 83.

Since then, the fashion world has been enamored with Apfel's humor-driven, vintage-inspired style. "I don't take myself seriously," she says. "I like to have fun. I think it's good to have a few, little mistakes. I think it was Diana Vreeland who said, 'You can suffer from too much good taste.'"

Apfel's taste is far too interesting to be simply "good," with a wardrobe consisting of layers of costume jewelry, colorful prints, feathers, fur and her trademark wide-rimmed glasses.

"Ever since I was a little kid, I was a flea market freak, and every time I saw an odd-ball frame, I bought them," she told People Magazine. "Sometimes, even if I didn't need to wear lenses, I'd put the frames on because I liked how they looked.... People would say to me, 'Why are they so large?' and I would say, because they are better to see you. And that would shut them up."

Photograph courtesy of S Moda

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