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Barbara Hulanicki OBE (b. 1936) is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of clothes store Biba. [1] Early life
Biba was started and run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon. [1] After the original company closed in 1975, Biba was relaunched several times, independently of Hulanicki. As of 2024 it was a brand of the House of Fraser. The company has been called an early practicer of the fast fashion business model. [2]
Top Gear was a boutique established in the 1960s by James Wedge and Pat Booth on the Kings Road, London. [1] It was an influential shop which Barbara Hulanicki was "most envious of", [2] and acquired a reputation for selling Mod clothing to the "rich and influential". [3]
After making hats and bags for Barbara Hulanicki at Biba, and working alongside Mary Quant, she opened her own Chelsea boutique, which was featured in a Newsweek article about Swinging London. She sold the shop to business partner Terence Donovan , then joined Nova magazine in 1965, when the radical Dennis Hackett became its editor.
It was funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and included industrial and graphic design. Other fashion names in the mix included Barbara Hulanicki, Bill Gibb, Jean Muir, Ossie Clark and Christopher McDonnell. Accessories were supplied by names such as jewellers Gerda Flockinger and Wendy Ramshaw and shoemakers The Chelsea Cobbler and Rayne.
Valentine Avoh; Maggy Baum; Dirk Bikkembergs; Veronique Branquinho; Christophe Coppens; Tim Coppens; Jules-François Crahay; Angele Delanghe; Ann Demeulemeester
Although Byrne described her clothes as "exclusive clothes – at reasonable prices", [7] Barbara Hulanicki, who went on to launch the original Biba boutique, remembered that one of Byrne's black dresses cost 20 guineas, which she thought quite expensive. [2]
Shoulder pads made their next appearance in women's clothing in the early 1970s, through the influence of British fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki and her label Biba. Biba produced designs influenced by the styles of the 1930s and 1940s, and so a soft version of the shoulder pad was revived.