Completely happy 102nd birthday, Iris Apfel!

The style world made the New York Metropolis-based designer’s milestone day on Aug. 29 a particular one, with family members and business contemporaries gathering to honor the inside designer whereas additionally sharing heartfelt tributes throughout social media.

Christie Brinkley shared a sequence of movies and pictures from Apfel’s birthday celebrations early Tuesday, that includes the designer plus Donna Karan and Brinkley’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel at an intimate dinner at Tutto il Giorno in The Hamptons, New York, at which the ladies lavished her with trendy items.

“Completely happy Birthday to Iris! She’s 102 and he or she’s obtained extra fashion than me and also you,” Brinkley, 69, wrote in her prolonged rhyming tribute. She the Queen of style who will get higher yearly. And todays her birthday did you hear? She’s obtained her trademark glasses and a wardrobe of enjoyable and we want her each happiness beneath the solar She’s s sensible snd savvy snd extraordinarily witty and he or she needs everybody to know that individuality’s all the time fairly that we should always all be ourselves considered one of a form. Good recommendation like that’s onerous to seek out so thanks Iris for all you do To say to individuals ‘you do you!’ (Such as you accomplish that nicely! ) Completely happy Birthday Iris! We LOVE YOU!”

Sporting a usually flamboyant fuzzy jacket with assertion jewellery, Apfel paired the birthday look together with her recognizable outsized black glasses, which have been her trademark for many years.

She posted her personal birthday Instagram, too, writing alongside a festive picture set to Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration,” “102 TODAY… who would’ve thought!!”

Amongst Apfel’s 2.8 million Instagram followers, a bunch of followers and style watchers posted their birthday blessings, together with Christina Hendricks, who commented on Apfel’s personal birthday publish, “Completely happy Birthday! You’re a lovely legend.” Kyle Richards, Daisy Fuentes (who wrote, “You’re targets!”) and Kimberly Williams Paisley have been amongst different well-wishers.

Having first entered the world of style as a younger author for Girls’s Put on Day by day, Apfel continued her upward profession trajectory by transitioning into inside design, founding her textile firm Outdated World Weavers together with her husband Carl in 1951. Whereas working within the textile business, Apfel reproduced historic materials throughout 9 White Home administrations, together with for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Invoice Clinton.

In 2005, at age 84, Apfel was launched to a wider viewers, changing into a nationwide sensation when the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork displayed her closet archives full of colourful, scene-stealing outfits and daring equipment collected from her years of worldwide journey. She shortly grew to become a darling of the style world due to her sharp wit and sartorial selections that defied her age.

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Apfel didn’t have youngsters together with her late husband Carl, whom she was married to for practically 70 years earlier than his dying in 2015.

In an interview with PEOPLE years again, Apfel mentioned she had been holding herself busy “to the purpose of madness,” together with starring in clothes line Blue Illusions’s Spring 2016 advert marketing campaign; releasing a coloring e book in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic; partnering with British magnificence model Ciaté London for a capsule assortment; and launching the Iris Apfel x H&M assortment with the Swedish clothes retailer in 2022.

“I by no means anticipated to be a star,” the self-proclaimed “Energizer Bunny” revealed to PEOPLE in 2020. “I’ve by no means had a marketing strategy, however alternatives got here, and I took them.”