Peter York Quotes

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• If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is…
• All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow.…
• Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish…
• Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
• Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
• Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).
• Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
• Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
• London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
• One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
• Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
• There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
• There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.
• All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a…
• Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character…
• By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been…
• By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art.…
• Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity…

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