“As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.” HelpingFashionDeserveBritishRecognitionDesignerArenaDelightedAmbassadors Author:Tamara Mellon
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.” ArtNationsBornActingCreativeFashionGrewSkillsPhotographyGrew UpCookingBritishDecadesBritish HistoryArt And Music Author:Heston Blumenthal
“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.” MindHumansLooksSometimesIndividualHuman BeingsFashionBecomingPeriodsPoliticianCreaturesBehaviorSellsBritishHistorianEstablishmentProfitableScottishBritish HistoryHegemonyWelsh Author:Linda Colley
“The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.” PlayFashionKingsVicesBritishLondonParisTunesClothingsHostilityVice VersaChorusFranco Author:Honore de Balzac
“I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.” PersonsAmericaRoomsFashionClothesMalesBritishClothes And FashionBest Dressed Author:Tom Odell
“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.” LongSeemsPoliticalNaturalReligiousSpaceRecordsFashionFlowerHabitEuropeBritishChristmasDawnCustomsSurvivedFestivalsPaganismPaganFestivitiesGreeneryMidwinter Book:Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain Source: Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
“The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingTwoImportantEnoughWholeTogetherOpportunityTeamFashionGive MeBritishRecognitionAcknowledgeAwardsFormalHometown Author:Christopher Bailey
“In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I am Italian. I'm not typical, maybe because my visual education was very mixed. There was a lot of London in my aesthetic: The Face, i-D, British music, and a lot of British fashion . . . But I really enjoy this contrast.” PeoplePastFacesEnjoyFashionBritishLondonVisualsItalianAestheticContrastTypicalDanishBritish Music Author:Italo Zucchelli
“British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.” PeopleCountryEconomyFashionSeriousIndustryBritishFashion IndustrySerious Business Author:Natalie Massenet
“McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.” MadeCreativityJourneyFashionIndustryUniqueUnderstoodExcitingMarkOriginalsForgottenSaintBritishLike MeRevolutionaryParisEstablishmentDaringAmbassadorsMcqueen Author:John Galliano
“We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.” WorldCultureLossCareersGenerationsInfluenceStreetsStageTalentFashionStyleMarkBritishPassingPassingsMuseumsAestheticDaringAstonishingFearlessnessDevastatedInsurmountableMcqueenMusic Culture Author:Anna Wintour