Biba
Sign in to saveBiba 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.
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- Instance of
- mail order
- Field of work
- fashion
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London
- Founded by
- Barbara Hulanicki
- Headquarters
- Kensington
- Owned by
- Barbara Hulanicki
- Industry
- fashion
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- Commons category
- Biba
- inception
- 1975-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Centraal Museum
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- Early years
- Big Biba
- Demise
- Relaunches
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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.
After the original company closed in 1975, Biba was relaunched several times, independently of Hulanicki. it was a brand of the House of Fraser. The company has been called an early practicer of the fast fashion business model.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Biba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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