Sixty years ago, London’s retail landscape changed irrevocably with the opening of Biba, Kensington’s swingiest emporium. It brought the fashion thrills and Rainbow Room spills to the hoards who would ...

English model Twiggy stretches out on a leopardskin bed at Biba's Kensington store, 1971 - Justin de Villeneuve There is, and always has been, so much mythology around Biba, since its launch in 1964, ...

When Barbara Hulanicki, who was born in Warsaw in 1936, set up Biba in 1964 with her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon, the pair quickly set the London fashion scene, which the designer described as 'so grey ...

“My God, it’s dull,” said interior designer Steven Thomas of the British retail landscape in 2024. As the creative force behind the look of the wildly popular 1970s London fashion store Big Biba, ...

In 1960s London, Kensington was swinging. The first boutique selling Biba, a fashion brand that defined the era, was opened in a former chemist’s shop on Abingdon Road, before it relocated to a former ...