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Manufacturer: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C

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Big Biba , the final flowering of Barbara Hulanicki's legendary Biba store in London, was a shop like no other, before or since. It was a fabulous fantasy palace that brought the indulgence of Hollywood to the world of retail. Big Biba lasted just two years before it fell victim to recession, but the myth of the most beautiful store in the world continues to enchant both its former habitu,s and those who came to it too late. Founded as a corner-shop selling just one dress, Biba had grown in less than a decade to become a seven-storey department store filled with own-brand products throughout. Here the committed Bibaphile could buy not only a new wardrobe, fully co-ordinated from head to toe, but also a complete range of cosmetics and soft furnishings, together with the washing powder to care for her clothes, and food for both herself and her pets, all presented in the distinctive Biba packaging. Alternatively she could just hang out, either lounging in the shop-windows (Biba didn't do window-disp


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 708
EAN: 9781851495245
ISBN: 185149524X
Label: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
Manufacturer: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2006-09-25
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
Studio: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Biba: The Biba Experience
• From A to Biba
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• The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
• Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Wonderful Memories of Big Biba -
This book brought back the wonderful world of Big Biba. I was 19 and in London for the first time when my friend and I walked into Big Biba. What an amazing site--I felt like Alice in Wonderland just stepping into a fantastic new world. We had never seen anything so splendid, creative, beautiful. We didn't have much money to spend but I bought eye shadow, lipgloss, and grapefruit face toner. I kept the bottle for years as a keepsake. I wish the book had even more photos but the ones that are in it are wonderful. What a great way to relive these memories! I recommend this book for anyone interested in fashion, design, the 1970's, or if you were ever lucky enough to have visited Big Biba.

Fascinating. -
This book makes me want to go back in time and step out in 60's London and experience Big Biba. Such a great story with so many fantastic photos that really capture the punkiness of the atmostphere. Great book. I highly recommend experiencing Big Biba.

Welcone to Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World -
What else can I say but buy this book to travel back to a time when fashion was fun! A great read and a treasure to own.

Stardusted memories -
For those who were there, it brings back memories. For those who were not, "Big Biba" shows what you missed. For everyone, a look through this over-sized picture book will fill you with awe-- how could this have been???? But it was... Although, as a transatlantic visitor, I had mixed opinions about Big Biba (see reviews of "The Biba Experience"), it was still a wonder to behold. Time has done nothing to dilute that wonderment. In fact some of the most successful retail concepts (Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters for example) lightly but lovingly tiptoe down the Biba path. "Big Biba" is a classy 96 pages of heavyweight stock including a repro of the 16-page Opening Day Newspaper and a garment hangtag for use as a bookmark. Barbara Hulanicki herself writes the forward and doesn't dwell too much on the crash-and-burn aspect of the Biba phenomenom. As she shouldn't. Biba was obviously a product of its times, and now we have this lovely book for all time.

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