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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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The tiny boutique Biba, in Abingdon Road, thrived in 1964 and moved to a much more visible and larger site in Kensington Church Street, then, bigger still, to Kensington High Street, until it finally over-reached itself (with City funding), in a veritable parody of capitalism by taking over the huge department store Derry & Tom’s, selling bedsheets, paint, kitchenware and cocktails as well as frocks and maternity dresses, and went bust within two years.
Jenny Diski | From: The Sixties(Profile Books, 2009)
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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Rattan peacock chair, leopard-print fabric, black suede over knee boots, striped T-shirts and stripey tights, all from Biba ...Stuff given/bought by Viv Albertine between 1967 and 1974 at BIBA.
Viv Albertine | From Clothes, Music, Boys(Faber & Faber, 2014)
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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1973 | IN & AROUND BIBA
1973 | MAJOR CATASTROPHES
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January 1973 | Kensington High Street, London
Photograph: Pierluigi Omodeo Salé
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