Iris Apfel, fashion icon and businesswoman, dies aged 102 | US News

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American fashion icon and businesswoman Iris Apfel has died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, aged 102. The news was confirmed on her social media accounts in the early hours of Saturday morning and by her agent, who called her “extraordinary” and said she was the personification of style. No cause of death was given. She was last pictured celebrating the Leap Year on Thursday. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to…

Eco-responsible fashion in Paris from McCartney and Serre

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PARIS, March 5 — Two of fashion’s most environmentally conscious designers presented their autumn-winter collections on Monday, the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week. Vegan Stella McCartney With her father and his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr watching from the front row, Britain’s Stella McCartney called on the fashion world to “wake up” with a collection that took her sustainable schtick even further. Advertisement McCartney said 90 per cent of the outfits were made from “eco-responsible” materials, and said she had hunted out solutions that could not be told apart from traditional textiles by the naked eye, such as a white…