All Peter York Quotes
- If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. Animal
- 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… Across
- 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.… Affordable
- 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… Acquisitive
- Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. Ate
- Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts. Advertising
- Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. Architecture
- Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life). Beyond
- Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead. Aspire
- Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice. Girl
- London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. Art
- One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure. From
- Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now. Anti
- There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit. Biscuit
- There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one. Foundation
- 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… All
- 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… Anything Look
- 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… Age
- 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.… Aesthetic
- 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… All
- Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… Bearing
- Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue.… Analyst
- For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own… Avoidance
- George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… American
- Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick… Armed