Peabody Essex Museum Honors Iris Apfel’s 100th Birthday With a Month-Long Celebration

The Peabody Essex Museum is honoring Iris Apfel’s 100th birthday with an extravagant exhibition. The global fashion icon, known for her style and signature round oversized glasses, is being honored by PEM with a month-long celebration featuring special programming, a pop-up shop and the inaugural Iris Apfel Award. Apfel will present the Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger in a virtual event on Sept. 17, which will be screened at PEM as part of its Friday late-night programming. Apfel selected Hilfiger as someone who is a creative force in the industry, and as someone who demonstrates excellence in design in balance with good business sense and entrepreneurial acumen, according to statement. The public is invited to attend this virtual event, which will feature a conversation between Apfel and Hilfiger. A three-story Apfel-inspired window installation will be unveiled in mid-September in Salem, Mass., where the museum is located. This installation will include imagery from the Iris x Zenni Zentennial eyewear collection. Pieces from the icon’s wardrobe and jewelry as well as limited-edition ornaments featuring the likeness of Apfel and her late husband, Carl Apfel, will be available for sale in the PEM shop. The series “Little People, Big Dreams” now includes a book on

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