If there’s one style model that epitomised the swinging sixties it was Biba. It began as a mail order firm later turning into a seven-story division retailer, identified for its mini skirts after which – within the early seventies – as the house of bell backside trousers, floppy brimmed hats and billowing ostrich feather decorations.
Its success was constructed on the design brilliance of its founder Barbara Hulanicki.
As a brand new exhibition opens in London, telling the Biba story, Jane Dodge went to fulfill her.