FROM A TO BIBA

Barbara Hulanicki s BIBA Shop grew from one room to a five story department store as it became an icon of hip 60s and 70s London and a hangout for artists movie stars and rock musicians including David Bowie Twiggy and Marianne Faithfull BIBA s black and gold Deco style logo is still a familiar symbol of Swinging London s heyday as a world capital of fashion music and the arts but in the early 1970s Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz Simon lost control of their business and for Barbara BIBA was gone This lively autobiography evokes the adventurous spirit of the 1960s and describes an extraordinary life with clarity and wit