Review of Iris (2015) by Héliø L — 07 Apr 2016

An Iris Apfel doco by Albert Maysles is the type of sophisticated and unsurprising collaboration that might as well have been made in heaven. The eccentric, the colourful and the unique have always been under the gaze of the Maysles brothers so it is fitting that one of NYC's greatest style icons was to be one of their very last subject matters, and that she'd outlive them.

While the creative spirit of "the lady with the glasses" is on film, anyone expecting a straight-forward biography affair or some narrative structure might be disappointed. But the Big Apfel is hard to resist, for this "rare bird of fashion" it is happiness that matters and not what one's wearing.

My kind of trend.