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Welcome to Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World (Hardcover)
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Welcome to Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World (Hardcover)
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.New dimensions and price; same content.Devoted entirely to Big
Biba, documenting the transformation of the original Derry &
Toms building into the Superstore Boutique .The definitive record
of a moment in British shopping history that will probably never be
repeated and certainly never forgotten.Illustrated with 150
superlative colour photographs, many of them published here for the
first time.Foreword by Barbara HulanickiBig 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 habitues 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-displays), or sipping cocktails
upstairs amongst the flamingos that lived in the Roof Garden, or in
the Rainbow Room, where on a good night there might be a live
performance by the likes of the New York Dolls, Liberace or The
Manhattan Transfer.Welcome to Big Biba is the first book dedicated
entirely to this dreamland, with over 150 colour photographs - most
published here for the first time - of the store and of the
products and graphics created for the various departments, from
bathrooms to ball-gowns, from cosmetics to colouring-books.
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