Iris Apfel, who turned a vogue icon identified for her huge, colourful, eclectic wardrobe and was the topic of Albert Maysles‘ 2014 documentary “Iris,” died Friday. She was 102.

Apfel died at her dwelling in Palm Seashore, Fla., in response to the New York Instances.

Apfel labored as an inside designer beginning within the Fifties, then ran the textile firm Outdated World Weavers together with her husband, who died in 2015. She collected lots of of things of clothes equipment and in 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork mounted an exhibition of her wardrobe known as “Rara Avis: Choices From the Iris Apfel Assortment.” It was the museum’s first exhibition devoted to only one particular person’s clothes assortment.

The exhibition turned her into a star, and he or she was featured in quite a few articles and advert campaigns.

The 2007 coffee-table ebook “Uncommon Chook of Style: The Irreverent Iris Apfel” added to her fame.

Maysles’ documentary opened the New York Movie Pageant in 2014, then performed theatrically in 2015.

“A joyous celebration of creativity and razor-sharp wit sustained into outdated age, as evinced by outspoken nonagenarian vogue icon Iris Apfel, ‘Iris’ additionally affords proof of Albert Maysles’ continued vitality as a documentarian,” stated Selection‘s overview.

“Iris’ creativity lies not in inventing something new, however in her startling assemblages of discovered objects. Her illustrious profession as an inside designer included consultations with a number of successive inhabitants of the White Home (her unspecified ‘issues’ with Jackie Kennedy are allowed to move in charged silence), whereas offbeat objects saved in an enormous Lengthy Island Metropolis warehouse mirror a protracted, diversified historical past of catering to extra adventurous upscale shoppers,” the overview continued.

Apfel appeared in quite a few advert campaigns and signed a modeling contract with IMG on the age of 97.