Peter Wallis

Peter Wallis, AKA Peter York

Peter Wallis aka Peter York is a “Style Guru, Author, Presenter, Management Consultant” with links to key people within New Labour. Alongside businessman and political networker Dennis Stevenson Wallis was co-founder of management consultancy SRU where Peter Mandelson worked as a consultant between 1990 and 1992.

He was appointed Chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry Committee examining the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government’s ‘Foresight’ initiative in 1994.. Wallis was also chairman of media consultants Hydra Associates between 1987 and 1999. Blairite politician James Purnell worked as a strategy consultant for Hydra Associates between 1992 and 1994.

Peter York

Peter Wallis has featured more in the public eye under his pseudonym Peter York. From writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook and being Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years, to financing The Modern Review. York co-authored Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist for The Independent on Sunday, GQ magazine and Management Today.

Affiliations

Department of Trade and Industry | Britain Abroad Task Force | Hydra Associates | Tate Gallery | MFI Plc | St. Marylebone Society | Dunhill | Waterford | Harpers & Queen | World of Interiors | The Economist | The Financial Times | Jaegar | Tiffany | Mont Blanc | Liberty | Coutts & Co

Publications

• Style Wars (1980)
• The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982)
• Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings
• Dictators' Homes (2005)
• Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.