Monday was a day to celebrate for icon Iris Apfel. The entrepreneur and fashion legend both turned 95 and launched her fashion collaboration with Macy’s in house brand, INC. While “fashionable” isn’t a term most people associate with women of a certain age, Apfel’s design work proves that stereotype obsolete.

And Iris x INC. dares other women to disprove it too. When asked her thoughts on the concept of women dressing their age she replied “I think that’s stupid. I think [the fashion industry is] all entirely too youth-oriented. I think a lot of designers create very expensive clothes for women 60s and 70s — people who wear them — and they create them for 16- and 18-year-old bodies. The kids can’t afford to buy them and the women look like a horse’s ass if they put it on. So it’s all out of whack.”

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First posted on SHEmagazine.ca on September 6, 2016.

Photography courtesy of BFA.