All Peter York Quotes
- Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in… Call
- Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… Adorable
- The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards.… Actually Read
- The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every… Art
- The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies… Assimilation
- The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate,… Altogether
- There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have… Brian
- There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth.… Betters
- This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the… Canvas
- When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real… Allegedly
- When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been… Anywhere