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Photograph Tessa Hallmann © Royal Pavilion & Museums
The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery are showcasing a major fashion exhibition that will look at the story of Barbara Hulanicki and Biba. The final part of the exhibition will look at Barbara Hulanicki's career from the late 1970s to the present day. The exhibition will be running from 22nd September 2012 to 14th April 2013.
There will be over 200 exhibits which were either loaned from major collectors or private individuals. The Biba story will unravel through film, illustration, fashion, photography and ephemera.
Here are some of the items that will be on display....
Banana story-wallpaper and dress, c1968-2006
This design has been used a number of times over Barbara's career and in different ways. The print has been used for wallpaper since 1968. It decorated the interior of the Biba store in New York. It then made a come back in 2006 when Habitat commissioned Barbara to design wallpaper. She reinterpreted the banana print using different colour ways.
Lace dress, c1969
This floor-length lace dress featured on the cover and inside pages of The Sunday Telegraph colour supplement. The high neck and 'handkerchief' sleeves were based on Edwardian and 1930-1935 styles.
I feel very lucky that Brighton has been chosen to hold this exhibition. If you live locally please go and check it out. There is a small admission charge but if you take a document, proving you live in Brighton, you get a discount. The lovely Jo-Ann Fortune (from Vintage Brighton) interviewed Barbara recently in this wonderful short documentary video. The video follows Barbara when she returns to Brighton, where she studied fashion illustration in the 1950s. |
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| Biba models, c9173, photographed by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archives. |
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| Biba models, c9173, photographed by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archives. |
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