Nicholas Haslam Quotes

English - Designer | September 27, 1939 -

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

Nicholas Haslam

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I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin.

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Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

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I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

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I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

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I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

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I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.

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I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that.

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It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.

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It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

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I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

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I'm about love.

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