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Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. 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.
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
The former "Big Biba" building, circa 2006. The Cosmopolitan journalist Lauren Bravo sees fast fashion stretching back to utility clothing and tailors who sold mass-produced affordable suits for men. In the 1960s companies like Inditex and Chelsea Girl attained commercial acumen, but the brand Biba endured as a fast fashion icon. [8]
Andriy Biba (born 1937), Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach Bardhok Biba (1920–1949), Albanian communist politician Narinder Biba (1941–1991), Indian Punjabi singer
Linda Kristin Bennett is an English-Icelandic clothing designer who set up the first L. K. Bennett shop in Wimbledon Village in 1990. Bennett sold a 70 per cent stake in the business in 2007 to Phoenix Equity Partners and Sirius Equity, a retail and branded luxury goods investment company. Berghaus
On opening in September 1973, Big Biba was described by The Sunday Times as "the most beautiful store in the world". [8] Big Biba closed in August 1975 after falling victim to a combination of over-ambition, in-fighting between the company's executives and the backers, property developer British Land and the UK's mid-70s economic recession.
Band of Outsiders (clothing brand) Barbour (company) Bellville Sassoon; Ben Sherman; Benson & Clegg; Berghaus; Biba; Blacks Outdoor Retail; Boden (clothing) Bodyamr; Bolongaro Trevor; Boxfresh; Malan Breton; Brora (retailer) Bunmi Koko; Burberry
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