Barbara Hulanicki, founder of ground-breaking sixties store
Biba has designed a series of wallpapers for UK design firm
Graham & Brown.
The designs convey the same bohemian, art deco and art nouveau themes that Hulanicki's store embodied. As synonymous for sixties London as minis and mods,
Biba's colourful, patterned clothing was the statement-making anti-establishment choice for sixties starlets, socialites and students such as Anita Pallenberg, Yoko Ono and Mia Farrow.
Her inspiration for the new wallpapers, which is priced at 30 pounds,
or AU $60 a roll, is the Biba logo designed by John
McConnell back in 1964.
While Hulanicki later sold her business, she still continued a career in fashion, working as a a fashion illustrator and designing for Fiorucci and Cacharel as well as her own brand in Brazil. She maintained her London link, designing
interiors for Ron Wood and many of Miami's art deco buildings.
The fashion label has recently been revitalised by Bella Freud and has shown at London fashion week. Now owned by Michael Pearce, Biba has pieces on sale at
Browns in London.
Biba resurgent at London fashion week