He was Style Editor of Harpers and Queen for ten years, co-authored The Sloane Ranger Handbook (one of the UK’s biggest-selling trade book of the 1980s), has written six other books on social style/social change, was the writer and presenter of Peter York’s 80s, a six part BBC series shown in 1996, was a member of Channel 4’s ‘Power Commission’ which nominated the 300 most powerful people in the UK in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and appeared in The Channel 4 programme The Power List. He writes regularly for The Independent and other broadsheets, specialising in social tribes, social trends and interior design. Peter’s latest book Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger, was published in October 2007 and his documentary The Rise and Fall of the Adman for the BBC was shown on BBC2 in June 2008. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London and has an Honorary Degree from the University of the Creative Arts.