“[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!” MenLongLeftDoorsEuropeElectionClubsBritishWideParliamentExclusiveBritish Parliament Author:Nancy Astor
“America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.” IfsWorldCountryAmericaBeautifulGirlDoorsHugeMonthsModelsEuropeStructureFinancialCampaignsBudgetsParisOther CountriesClientsVersusEasternFertileImbalanceOther GirlEastern EuropeFertile Ground Author:Michael Flutie
“As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.” PeopleLooksFallThreeDemocracyDoorsMovementWallDevelopmentEuropeEasternGlobalizationBerlinEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallEurozoneFree Movement Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartDifferentFilmGuyLanguageFiveNiceDoorsEuropeLonelyBarsGreat ThingsDrunkBankersThat GuyBrooklynWaitressNice GuyDifferent LanguagesMobsterLonely HeartAntwerpRotterdam Author:Thomas Bidegain
“Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.” ArtWinningNumbersDoorsDesignProjectsEuropeCompetitionMuseumsInvitedFrankfurtApplied Arts Author:Richard Meier