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The Biba Story: the fashion brand that lifted a drab postwar Britain into the swinging 60s

First conceived as a mail-order-only company in 1963, known as Biba’s Postal Boutique, the brand captured the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s attitude and style, offering trend-seekers affordable, high-fashion aesthetics and glamour akin to Paris catwalks.

The Conversation

‘Bottle grief – you don’t want to be a bore’: Barbara Hulanicki

The fashion designer and Biba founder, 87, on the best business advice she’s been given, why she wears black and the reason she never cries

The Guardian - UK

Microminis, Twiggy and flamingos: the ‘fabulous’ story of Biba

Exhibition in London captures the legendary emporium’s years at the height of fashion from 1964 to 1975

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1960s nostalgia sweeps London — from the Biba exhibition to the great return of the mini skirt

London swings again! Sixty years ago, Biba style rocked London — and now, a new exhibition celebrating the iconic shop’s cultural importance is opening in the capital, part of the next generation’s obsession with the clothes, music and freedom of the decade, says Victoria Moss

Evening Standard

How Biba’s make-up and cosmetics line started a beauty revolution

Ahead of a new Biba retrospective opening at London’s Fashion & Textile Museum, Hannah Tindle speaks to Barbara Hulanicki about its pioneering make-up and cosmetics line

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Inside Biba: Kensington's Sixties fashion palace where Diana Ross, Princess Anne and David Bowie used to shop

From Barbara Hulanicki – the legend who started it all – to the Biba girls who worked the shop floor, as a new exhibition opens in London Isobel Van Dyke meets those who built London’s fashion empire of the swinging Sixties

Evening Standard

‘My mum was horrified’: how Biba’s store changed my teenage years

Barbara Hulanicki brought chic clothes to the masses in the 60s. Now those golden Georgy Girl years are to be celebrated in a new exhibition

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Barbara Hulanicki’s forever fashion: ‘I made this jacket for Twiggy, which is why it’s so tiny’

The designer made this in the early 70s for her label, Biba. It is one of the few pieces she still has from that era

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