Biba, 19 magazine, 1971.
BIBA. 864,006 likes · 21,398 talking about this · 1 was here. One of the most loved ethnic brands in India. We make traditional Indian attire fashionable.
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As I said in last week's postscript I wasn't sure whether I would have time to write a post this week, especially as the only one I had in draft and nearly finished was one of my quirky ones which I was really saving for December. Then I realised that as the Biba post had…
Alright, so this is what the VC store should look like. We have some product expansion to work on if we want to catch up to Biba, including ...
If you're in or around Brighton in the next few weeks take some time out and pop into The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. They have a major f...
Posts about Biba written by Ellie
While in Brighton I visited the Brighton Museum with the sole purpose of visiting the Biba and Beyond exhibition. The exhibition covers the career of the designer behind Biba, Barbara Hulanicki. This is going to be along post so I’m doing it in two parts. The History of Biba Barbara Hulanicki studied art at Brighton School of Art, after finishing her studies she went on to win a beachwear design competition in The Evening Standard in 1955. Her career in fashion began when she worked s a fashion illustrator with her work appearing in numerous fashion magazines including Vogue. Biba began it’s life as a mail order company selling her designs through newspapers, its first major success was with a Bridgette Bardot style Gingham dress which they had advertised in The Daily Mail which received 4000 the morning after the advert appeared. As the mail order business gained in popularity Hulanicki acquired a shop in Arbington Road in Kensington in 1964 as a means of storing the stock which she could no longer fit in her home. Within an hour of the store opening all the dresses had sold out and her husband had to bring more. Biba was iconic […]
How do I respond to having a little extra cash? In these tough times, with the price of gas skyrocketing, economics uncertain you would think I'd sit on it but I am buying books. I somehow fell into a recalling of the glory of BiBa and had to have a closer look. First frank and…
BIBA and Beyond Exhibition
Oh how I love to see a celebrity rock their Ossie Clark errrr Biba frock! (This is why one should never blog first thing in the morning b...
Big Biba… here we go!! The beginning of the end for the most wonderful and lush of all the Biba stores. Increasing from their little corner shop to a 5 story Art Deco building on the high street of Kensington. This mammoth of a store was fit with a basement for the food hall, a ground floor, mens, childrens, household,
This is the first in a series of posts about classic and iconic fashion brands of years gone by. I have a special interest in Art Deco darling of the 60’s and 70’s, Biba. A recent vintage haul yielded an original black velvet Biba skirt – high-waisted, with covered buttons to one side of the…
Biba was a London icon. Biba epitomised the swinging 60s & 70s in London. Before then, as founder Barbara Hulanicki said, “In England, we were thought to be the worst-dressed people in Europe”. Biba was a fashion label, a shop, a feeling & a mood. It perfectly encapsulated the mood of the time. It started …
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Starting life as a small mail-order business, Barbara Hulanicki's design label 'Biba' evolved into a style and retail phenomenon
An inspiration capsule featuring the work of Hilary Jane and Barbara Hulanicki’s BIBA
I feel a fashion-metamorphosis coming over me lately. Does that happen to you from time-to-time? It seems that roughly every two years, I st...
