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.