British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueen
Related When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal. JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage. SLASH The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British i... NELSON MANDELA 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on ... ROSE GEORGE Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive ... TAMARA MELLON People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not... ANNA WINTOUR Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-... GINA BELLMAN I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the Briti... MARTIN FREEMAN Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21b... NATALIE MASSENET It is vitally important farmers remain confident and focused on producing and promoting top quality ... GEORGE YOUNG I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council. NATALIE MASSENET I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion. MONIKA CHIANG The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and ... JOHN CLEESE I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British. VICTORIA BECKHAM I said if they wanted to keep the British setting in Northern England, then I will bow out, because ... TERRENCE MCNALLY In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation o... STORMZY Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr... GEORGE OSBORNE Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said America... MAUREEN CALLAHAN My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin. ANNE ROBINSON I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern. PARMINDER NAGRA It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. ALEXANDER LEBEDEV I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prin... DONATELLA VERSACE I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic. DONATELLA VERSACE The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge d... THERESA MAY Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being throw... JOHN AMERY In Omnia Paratus BRITISH ARMY It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few... NEIL MACGREGOR It's a special bit of British history that New Zealanders can connect with. DAVID QUARMBY I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers. EHUD OLMERT Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. BILL MOYERS My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne... SARAH WATERS I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing.... JAMIE XX We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeate... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK This is the best day for British farming for a good many years. It marks the end of 10 years in the ... ANTHONY GIBSON The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by every... LOUISE BROWN The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit. The hair, the skin tone and the... DOUGLAS ADAMS British women feel happier and more in control of their lives when their home is clean and tidy. Cle... DEE SMITH The nature is a hard task master, if you refuse to bow to the truth, it will get you afflicted with ... DR HITESH C SHETH A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a p... JOHN HOPKINS The British tried to repress it. LEO MOHAN I'm British, and I like to do some British music, ... That's something I can bring to the orchestra,... HUW EDWARDS I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. JOHN MAJOR Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will m... JOHN TALBOT The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the I... CONAN O'BRIEN Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. JOHN C. POLANYI This is the first recent event in an Arab country which focuses on perspectives of British Muslims i... CLAIRE HALPRINE At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British pow... SALMAN RUSHDIE With the new 60s era setting, we have plenty of new material to work with - from Hippies and British... JOSH RESNICK I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quit... RYAN CARTWRIGHT It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate hon... NICOLE SCHERZINGER My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets t... VINCE CABLE I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W... KATIE MCGRATH In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it... TOM PAULIN Younger British Asian women are increasingly self-harming and attempting suicide at rates two to thr... JASVINDER SANGHERA The Sino-British relationship has now entered a new phase of sustained development, and achieved gra... HU JINTAO Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide ... PANKAJ MISHRA After creating the chamber of commerce we want to make history and have a Hispanic heritage parade. GERMAN LOPEZ Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together. CAROLINA HERRERA I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited a... MARTIN PARR One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i... MARTIN JACQUES I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. ANDREW ELDRITCH I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British ... ARTHUR PENN It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. IAN HISLOP We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themsel... CHARLIE PARKER Let (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either, ROBERT MUGABE You can't manufacture a buzz; it has to come from the work. But it also comes from confidence, and t... LOUISE CHUNN [Coe, a knighted exemplar of measured eloquence, does not giggle and break into giddy trot lightly. ... SEBASTIAN COE We believe it is the biggest sponsorship in British sporting history outside of football. DAVID MOORCROFT The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' vo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS What is being proposed is divisive ... it would create a lower strata of British. MANZOOR MOGHAL Sounds French, it is known to be British, but in fact it is 100 percent owned by McDonald's. SIMON ANHOLT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent Br... GEORGE MIKES May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. ZEN in the British interest. IAIN DUNCAN SMITH If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. DAVID SOUL Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbe... JULIAN FELLOWES There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. GEORGE BORROW The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. ERNST JUNGER When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ... ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to ma... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I am attached to a strict approach to Brexit: I respect the British vote, but the worst thing would ... EMMANUEL MACRON Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it wi... DAVID BARNES There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it t... CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twic... CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twi... CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. DAVE MUSTAINE I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD It's time for a British boss, somebody who understands our passion, belief and commitment. There's n... DAVE RICHARDS I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by str... DAVID SAINSBURY, BARON SAINSBURY OF TURVILLE Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its ... ROBERT TROUT Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we ... BRENDA BLETHYN Continental's flexible growth plan is generating both strong earnings momentum and cash flow. LARRY KELLNER Continental's flexible growth plan is generating both strong earnings momentum and cash flow, LARRY KELLNER What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-... ANDREW COHEN It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefor... NANDAN NILEKANI
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec... ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat... ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin... ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ... ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo... ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp... ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil... ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so... ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE