Isaac Mizrahi in witch country
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“She can bring out the hot pink in taupe,’’ Isaac Mizrahi raved of self-described “geriatric starlet’’ Iris Apfel and her signature style, which is currently on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Mizrahi, the bigger-than-life fashion designer and TV personality (he’ll host a program on QVC starting next month), sat down with Apfel on Tuesday in front of a sold-out audience. Among the topics: their mutual style heroes (Millicent Rogers, for one) and what bothers them about fashion magazines (Mizrahi: the advertising; Apfel: the uniformity of clothes). Mizrahi even sounded a bit jealous of the 88-year-old Apfel, whom he described as one of the first post-modernists. “I remember once I got a criticism for doing things too big [in my designs], and my reaction was ‘Well, why is Iris allowed to do that?’"
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