Quotes by Peter York

Peter York

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 to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: ‘I’m a good person. Isn’t it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?’

Feelings

People

Pressure

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

Advertising

Art

Relief

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.

Design

Fashion

Luxury

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 long time.

Long

Names

Reassuring

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 and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘Glamorama.

Character

Firsts

Names

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.

Class

Hair

Real

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. The Sloane domestic aesthetic – symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture – became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

Art

Class

Symbolism

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 sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

Eye

Girl

Worry

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

Architecture

Chandeliers

Jewellery

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.

Book

Opportunity

Rooms

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Advertising

Agency

Ambition

America

Analysts

Animal

Architecture

Arguing

Arrows

Art

Attitude

Baby

Beauty

Believe

Biscuits

Black

Black And White

Block

Book

Brian

Caring

Cash

Chandeliers

Character

Children

Chocolate

Christian

Class

Clever

Clothes

Clueless

Commitment

Community

Conflict

Confused

Country

Culture

Cutting

Deregulation

Design

Different

Dog

Downtown

Employment

Eye

Fans

Fashion

Father

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Firsts

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Quotes by Peter York

Peter York

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

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 long time.

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 and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘Glamorama.

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.

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

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.

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