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Biba
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Author: Barbara Hulanicki
Title: Biba
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 256
Release Date: 2024-11-05
Details: Established As Biba's Postal Boutique By Barbara Hulanicki In 1963 Selling Inexpensive Women's Fashion, Biba Became A Decade Later The Most Glamorous Department Store In London, Declared By The Press As 'the Most Beautiful Store In The World.' Customers Included Twiggy, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, And Freddie Mercury, Whose Girlfriend Mary Austin Had Been A Biba Girl. Selling Everything To Fill Your Wardrobes And Furnish Your Home, The Seven Storey Art Deco Building Included The Rainbow Room Restaurant Where Live Music Was Performed By The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, And Liberace. Lavishly Illustrated Throughout With Many Previously Unseen Objects From Hulanicki's Own Biba Archive, It Includes Texts By Hulanicki And Martin Pel, Written Memories Of Those Who Were Involved With Biba Including Molly Parkin And Madelaine Smith And A Foreword By Twiggy. The Publication Celebrates The 60th Anniversary Of Biba's Opening In September 1964, And Follows A Sell Out Uk Exhibition At The Fashion And Textile Museum Which Is Set To Travel To The Uk And Us-- Provided By Publisher.
EAN: 9780300279023
