Peter York Quotes

• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  Peter York

  Architecture, Chandeliers, Jewellery

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• In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

  Peter York

  Stars, Real, America

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• There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

  Peter York

  Design, Style, Biscuits

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• 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. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

  Peter York

  Arguing, Analysts, Grows

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• Como muchos baby boomers, me crié con un antropomorfismo arcaico. Perros cristianos honrados. Conejos con valores familiares. Porque los textos e imágenes antiguos eran sagrados: Potter, Milne y los demás. Incluso los padres preocupados que conocían a Freud y Jung nunca vieron las contradicciones de alimentarnos con ellos.

  Peter York

  Christian, Baby, Dog

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• 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 gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.

  Peter York

  Running, Book, Ties

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• People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

  Peter York

  Ideas, Worry, People

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• 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 in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

  Peter York

  Real, Class, Hair

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• 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 as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.

  Peter York

  Girl, Art, Two

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• 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. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

  Peter York

  Book, House, Important

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• 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 struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

  Peter York

  Book, Opportunity, Rooms

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• If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

  Peter York

  Beauty, Animal, Genius

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

  Peter York

  Smart, People, Conflict

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• One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

  Peter York

  Mistake, Pleasure, Source

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• El rock and roll es la hamburguesa que se comió el mundo.

  Peter York

  Rocas, Rock And Roll, Mundo

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

  Peter York

  Art, Relief, Advertising

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• Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

  Peter York

  Real, Escritura, Puntos de vista

  "Writers' rooms: Peter York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Keys, Employment

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• In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

  Peter York

  Dos, Visión, Diferentes

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• 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. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

  Peter York

  Fashion, Luxury, Design

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• Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.

  Peter York

  Nice, Pride, Smell

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• 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. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.

  Peter York

  Confused, Men, Clothes

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• 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 around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

  Peter York

  Running, Real, Reading

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• Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

  Peter York

  Attitude, Class, Style

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• A menudo me encuentro preocupada por los famosos. Es algo totalmente solidario; no es como la gente que encarga esas fotografías con flechas crueles para salir en las portadas de las revistas de famosos. Las fotografías muestran cirugías plásticas chapuceras, eczemas furiosos, aumento de peso y ropa horrible para el máximo schadenfreude.

  Peter York

  Caring, Clothes, Arrows

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