Emotional ties with Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki - Daily Mail
Published last year, The Biba Years coincided with a talk I gave at the V&A museum. Everybody is so wonderfully nostalgic about Biba in England and really celebrates what a departure our designs were. In Miami nobody knows who I am – probably why I love living there. I like to wear black head to toe and then pile on interesting, colourful accessories like these. I was given this fabulous Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture when Biba was awarded a prize for Best Boutique. Fitz died from cancer in 1997. he always had great strength of will and courage. It was almost 50 years after I’d founded Biba but it proves that people still remember. After Biba closed in 1976, I worked for labels including Fiorucci and Cacharel. When my husband Fitz [Stephen Fitz-Simon] and I moved to Miami in the 1980s I couldn’t resist this pineapple dish at an auction of drug baron Pablo Escobar’s possessions. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
