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00:32Iris is an artist. What she uses all of her clothing and her accessories to do is compose a new
00:39vision.
00:40She looks very bogey.
00:42She has the most remarkable collection of couture costume jewelry in the United States.
00:48I like to improvise just so I'm playing jazz.
00:52I was probably the first woman to wear jeans. Sounds crazy. It was.
00:57I can feel the pulse of her excitement about living.
01:00Mrs. Lohman, the original, said,
01:02You're not pretty and you'll never be pretty, but it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.
01:11I get more kick out of this that cost $4 and change than if my husband took me to Harry
01:16Winston.
01:17It's not a dull marriage, I can tell you that.
01:19Their fabric company had done a lot of work for administrations in the White House.
01:24We started in Truman.
01:25We're not supposed to talk about the White House. We get very upset.
01:28Well, we had a problem with Jackie.
01:31Stop.
01:34Iris' collection at the Met looked like nothing else we'd ever done.
01:38We didn't expect that would be quite the phenomenon that it was.
01:41An octogenarian starlet. I think that's fun.
01:46I've never heard you say, I don't like the way that person dresses.
01:50I can't judge. It's better to be happy than well dressed.
01:54In the words of my grandpa, a woman is as old as she looks, but a man is never old
02:00until he stops looking.
02:09You know why I think you did this film?
02:11Why?
02:11Because he's very handsome, and I think you really had a crush on him.
02:15Everybody does.
