i am so enamoured with this video... a visit to the zoo, and a conversation between dear friends iris apfel and duro olowu. they met in 2005, and have been friends ever since - “she and her husband carl are like my second parents,” says Olowu. “of course she loves fashion and I’m in the fashion business, but it’s not based on that. It’s just that I respect them, I like them and anyway I’ve always been a sucker for a 90-year-old broad.”
now THIS... this is real friendship.
iris: "the odd couple"; duro: "not so odd actually - it's the rest of the world that's odd, iris"
iris: "people like you to be a trained monkey"; duro: "what do you really think people think of you?"; iris: "i'll tell you the truth, i don't really think about it.... it's their problem, not mine, so i'm not going to stress about it."
iris: "love is wonderful - i think it's mutuality liking the same things, having respect for eachother. sex has something to do with it, but real love is not sex. i don't think today... young people don't seem to understand anything about relationships - they're so attached to buttons and pressing buttons that they have no time for anything human. it's much easier to jump into somebody's pants than to get into somebody's head."
iris: "animals i think are much better than people; why; well, i think they're more honest. if they like you, if they don't like you."
iris: "most people i find so boring i don't want to talk to them - sometimes i like to be left alone; what do you do when you're left alone; i like to sit and think. i really enjoy thinking."