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What would be wonderful to watch now: How Hulanicki’s Biba captured both the They Live Conform, Consume New Shirt Besides,I will do this divine decadence and the newly sexually liberated era of the early 1970s with Bowie, Bolan, and the New York Dolls—all pop cultural juggernauts at the time—as well as a post-Sixties Twiggy, whose Pre-Raphaelite hair and smoky eyes would stare out at you from Biba’s Sarah Moon-photographed ad campaigns. (Casting these folks could be sublime or nightmarish, depending on how right you thought the producers got it.) Hulanicki herself came from an emigré background, having been born in Warsaw in 1936 before fleeing with her family for Britain, and her story kept taking on new narrative twists and turns: After Biba crashed into bankruptcy, she left for America and started designing hotels, to great acclaim, and she is still here to this day. So, a happy ending—and who doesn’t want that?
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