Barbara hulanicki

This is the first in a series of posts about classic and iconic fashion brands of years gone by. I have a special interest in Art Deco darling of the 60’s and 70’s, Biba. A recent vintage haul yiel…

BIBA GIRL MADDIE SMITH [1967] This image has been a favourite of mine for a long time. It was purchased as a postcard sometime in the mid 1990s in Cork, Ireland. The girl in the picture is Maddie Smith, she had a part time job working as a shop assistant at Biba and also did some modelling for them, appearing in the first Biba catalogue which was photographed by Donald Silverstein for Barbara Hulanicki, who thought that she looked like a miniature Jean Shrimpton. Maddie/Madeline Smith would…

During the production of our collaboration with Barbara Hulanicki, we got a bit ‘fabric-nerdy’ with Barbara and chatted all about how Flare Street produces our garments and how Biba used to do it back in the day! Needless to say, it was amazing!! Generously, she told us the in’s and out’s of her production – what we ab

A new exhibition of unseen illustrations show the genius of Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki.

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Biba - Mary Quant

Models in Biba which was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon.

Mid-1970s tee shirts with Biba's Deco-inspired logos. The Biba label has always been a Holy Grail for several of our customers, so I thou...

One of the most peculiar things about being an illustrator is your inspiration for starting. In my case it was an early BBC TV programme run by Adrian Hill where children were encouraged to draw vario...

The Biba founder and designer, 81, talks about ageing, cheese and young friends