"photography rather than modelling, adopting Sarah Moon as her new name. She successfully captured the fashionable atmosphere of London after the ""swinging sixties"", working closely with Barbara Hulanicki, who had launched the popular clothes store Biba. In 1972, she shot the ""Pirelli"" calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with Cacharel, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and ""Vogue"". In 1985, Moon moved into gallery and film work. She later directed the music video for Cheb Khaled's pop hit Aïcha. Sarah Moon Sarah Moon (born 1941),"
"Stirling Cooper Stirling Cooper was a London-based fashion wholesaler and retailer that, along with brands such as Biba, Quorum, Browns and Clobber, helped to redefine UK fashion in the late 1960s. Part of the Swinging London scene in the early years, and with a destination store on Wigmore Street that attracted rock stars such as Mick Jagger, it grew into a substantial wholesaler and retailer and was even more influential in the 1970s, when UK-wide concessions created accessible and affordable high fashion. Stirling Cooper was started by two London cab drivers Ronnie Stirling and Jeff Cooper in 1967. It was"
"by The Sunday Times as ""the most beautiful store in the world"". Big Biba closed in August 1975 after falling victim to a combination of over-ambition, in-fighting between the company's executives and the backers, property developer British Land and the UK's mid-70s economic recession. The work for Big Biba drew a fresh set of commissions for Whitmore-Thomas, including Paul McCartney, who appointed the practice as in-house designers for his domestic and business interests, including the headquarters of McCartney's company PML in central London's Soho Square (complete with a recreation of his favourite Abbey Road studio in the basement), as well"
"Steady Go!"". In the shop, a young clientele bought affordable mini-skirts, floppy felt hats, feather boas, velvet trouser suits and unisex tee-shirts dyed in rich, muted colours. Incidentally, Anna Wintour started in fashion as a Biba employee. After the shop's 1975 closure, Hulanicki continued to work in the fashion industry, having moved to Brazil, where she opened several other stores. She also kept designing for labels such as Fiorucci and Cacharel and, from 1980 to 1992, designed a line of children's wear, Minirock, licensed to the Japanese market. In 1981 she opened a new shop in UK. In 1987 she"
"became the uniform of the era, with the added bonus of that whatever you bought, you could always get accessories to match. Miniskirts were causing a scene of their own, getting shorter by the week. Although not the first British designer to show the mini skirt, Biba was responsible for putting it on the high street and as miniskirts were in fashion, everything needed to be associated with them. Biba also brought out some of the first maxi coats. Biba's second store in London, the Kensington Church Street boutique, looked like an old apothecary on the outside with the wooden"
"Steve Thomas (artist) Steven Thomas (born Harry Steven Thomas, Chipping Norton, 30 October 1944) is an English designer and visual artist best known for his interiors and graphic design work for the Biba fashion brand. With design partner Tim Whitmore, Thomas led the small team which generated numerous designs and branding for the company's ambitious seven-storey department store known as ""Big Biba"" in London's Kensington High Street in the early to mid-1970s. In the 1960s Thomas represented groups including Peter Frampton's group The Herd and went on to create designs for such music business clients as the Rolling Stones and"
"women came to Biba before work with no makeup on, put it on in the store and then rushed to work. Biba never exhibited anything in shop windows, believing instead that people would be intrigued and seduced to enter the shop by their captivating store interior seen from outside. It was not unusual for 30,000 people to pass through the doors on a Saturday. There was a BIBA store in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1973-75. Big Biba was a huge responsibility in terms of expense and organization, but Hulanicki and Fitz felt they needed to ""keep moving forward."" Because of"
"As of 2017, it is the second-largest UK-based waste management company in terms of turnover. Biffa is the largest waste management company in the UK in terms of volume collected and national coverage, collecting over 250,000 bins per week and covering 95% of UK postcodes. The business was founded in Wembley by Richard Henry Biffa in 1912. The company, then called Richard Biffa Limited, was engaged in the removal and sale of ashes and clinker from London power stations, later adding sand and gravel and waste disposal to its operations. In 1958 Richard Henry Biffa's 19-year-old grandson, Richard Charles Biffa,"
"Osborne & Little Osborne & Little is a British manufacturer and retailer of upmarket wallpaper and fabrics. It was established in 1968 and now has showrooms worldwide. It was among the brands included in the Victoria and Albert Museum's ""British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age"" exhibition in 2012. Osborne & Little was established by Sir Peter Osborne (father of Conservative Party politician George Osborne) and his brother-in-law Antony Little. The company's shop, in the King's Road, Chelsea, put it in the heart of Swinging London. Little was the designer – he had been responsible for Biba's distinctive black"
"time use bright colours also. Bright blues, gold, silver, flouncy chiffons with whirls of muted psychedelic colours and bright boas. Many different kinds of fabric were used including satin, crepe, chiffon, metallic, a fabric that looked like soft felt (which had not been seen before). Biba also had dresses with sleeves that covered most of the hand with thumb holes, or with flouncy chiffon. Later in 1969 when Biba moved to its first upscale store on the north side of Kensington High Street, across from where they would later open up their department store, there was a radical change in"
"the fashion boom of what ""Time"" called “swinging London”. Associated initially with such ""mod"" designs as Quant's mini-skirt, this soon embraced a range of essentially Bohemian styles. These included the military and Victorian fashions popularised by stars who frequented boutiques such as Granny Takes a Trip, the ""fusion of fashion, art and lifestyle"" opened by Nigel Waymouth in the King's Road, Chelsea in January 1966, and, by 1967, the hippie look largely imported from America (although, as noted, London stores such as Biba had, for some time, displayed dresses that drew on Pre-Raphaelite imagery). The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, whose"
"Toms department store, which immediately attracted up to a million customers weekly, making it one of the most visited tourist attractions in London. There were different departments, and each floor had its own theme, such as a children's floor, a floor for men, a book store, a food market, and a ""home"" floor which sold items such as wallpaper, paint, cutlery, soft furnishings and even statues. The overall design was produced by Whitmore-Thomas Partnership, run by artist/designers Steve Thomas (artist) and Tim Whitmore.Each department had its own logo or sign, which was based on the Biba logo and had a"
"Clement Freebody. This business became Debenhams, one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom. William Debenham Snr died in 1863 at Kensal Rise in London. William married Caroline Freebody in 1820 and together they had six sons and four daughters. William Debenham William Debenham (; 18 April 1794 – 24 September 1863) was the founder of Debenhams, one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom. Born in 1794 in Alpheton in Suffolk, William Debenham joined Thomas Clark in a partnership to manage a draper's store at 44 Wigmore Street in London. The partners later expanded the business such"
"the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to the fashion industry. Barbara Hulanicki Barbara Hulanicki (b. 1936) is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of iconic clothes store Biba. Her father, Witold Hulanicki, was assassinated by the Stern Gang in Jerusalem in 1948, and the family moved to Brighton, England. While studying from 1954 to 1956 at the Brighton School of Art, now the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, Hulanicki won a London ""Evening Standard""-newspaper competition in 1955 for beachwear. She"
"Biba Apparels Biba Apparels is an Indian fashion brand founded by Meena Bindra in 1988 from her home in New Delhi, India. It has more than 150 brand outlets and 225 multi-brand outlets. Biba recorded sales of INR 600 crore in 2014-15. In 1982, Meena Bindra started the company from her home in New Delhi. She took 8000 rupees loan to start a small business. Some years later, Bindra allowed her sons, Sanjay and Siddharth, to help her to manage the business. In 2010, Sanjay left Biba and started his own apparel business, Seven East. Biba opened its first standalone"
"celebrated presenter, McGowan was the same age as the national audience; she wore all the latest trendy shifts and mini-dresses; and she spoke with an earnest, ceaseless barrage of teenage slang, praising whatever was 'fab' or 'smashing', and damning all that was 'square' or 'out'. 'The atmosphere', one observer wrote later, 'was that of a King's Road party where the performers themselves had only just chanced to drop by'. McGowan was an early patron of Biba, whose first store opened in September 1964, and had her own fashion range at British Home Stores. She endorsed a portable make-up set known"
"that the clothes became more expensive and the Biba styles then appeared to be designed for more sophisticated and richer young women in their 20s. The Kensington High Street store also lost the cozy boudoir look of its predecessor, which had been so appealing to its teenage customers, and took on the more sophisticated look of the upscale Kensington/Knightsbridge designer stores. The Biba logo played a crucial part in Biba’s success; the logo was gold and black which reflected the growing taste in youth for art deco. The logo was designed by Antony Little. To create a look for Biba"
"Daily"". Hulanicki sold her first designs through a small mail-order business that was featured in the fashion columns of newspapers such as the London ""Daily Mirror"". In 1964, she opened her Biba shop in the Kensington district of London with the help of her late husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon. The shop soon became known for its stylishly decadent atmosphere and lavish decor inspired by Art Nouveau and Art Deco. It became a hangout for artists, film stars and rock musicians, including Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull and Cathy McGowan, presenter of British pop/rock TV programme ""Ready"
"epicentre of Swinging London: Carnaby Street. ""Carnaby is my creation,"" Stephen said in 1967. ""I feel about it the same way Michelangelo felt about the beautiful statues he created."" Born in Glasgow, Stephen became a welder's apprentice on leaving school. He moved to London from Glasgow in 1952 at the age of 18, and worked as a waiter and also for London's first young male boutique, Vince Man Shop in Newburgh Street, central London. In 1956 Stephen opened his own retail outlet in Beak Street but a fire at the premises forced a move in 1957 to 5 Carnaby Street,"
"Topshop Topshop (originally Top Shop) is a British multinational fashion retailer of clothing, shoes, make-up and accessories. It has around 500 shops worldwide – of which some 300 are in the UK – plus online operations in a number of its markets. Its current CEO is Ian Grabiner, and it is part of the Arcadia Group, which is controlled by Sir Philip Green. Topshop started as a brand extension of the department store Peter Robinson in the 1960s and originally sold fashion by young British designers, such as Mary Quant and Stirling Cooper. Peter Robinson was a women's fashion chain"
"Bobby as a ""born trader"". Bobby Arora Bobby Arora (born January 1972) is a British billionaire businessman, trading director of the retail chain B & M. Bobby Arora was born in January 1972. In 1995, he went into business with his brother Simon Arora, and founded Orient Sourcing Services, importing homewares from Asia and supplying them to UK retail chains, before buying B & M in 2004, which was then a struggling grocery chain based in Blackpool. He has been trading director of B&M since 2005. Jointly with his brothers Simon and Robin, they have a net worth of £1.92"
"William Debenham William Debenham (; 18 April 1794 – 24 September 1863) was the founder of Debenhams, one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom. Born in 1794 in Alpheton in Suffolk, William Debenham joined Thomas Clark in a partnership to manage a draper's store at 44 Wigmore Street in London. The partners later expanded the business such that it had stores on both sides of Wigmore Street, one known as ""Debenham & Clark"" and the other known as ""Clark & Debenham"". When William Debenham Snr retired a new partnership was formed between his son, William Debenham Jnr, and"
"Barbara Hulanicki Barbara Hulanicki (b. 1936) is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of iconic clothes store Biba. Her father, Witold Hulanicki, was assassinated by the Stern Gang in Jerusalem in 1948, and the family moved to Brighton, England. While studying from 1954 to 1956 at the Brighton School of Art, now the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, Hulanicki won a London ""Evening Standard""-newspaper competition in 1955 for beachwear. She began her career in fashion as a freelance fashion illustrator for various magazines, including ""Vogue"", ""Tatler"" and ""Women's Wear"
"biographer of Edward Burne-Jones, writing a century after Shaw (Fiona MacCarthy, 2011), has noted that, in 1964, when the influential Biba store was opened in London by Barbara Hulanicki, the ""long drooping structureless clothes"", though sexier than the dresses portrayed in such Burne-Jones paintings as ""The Golden Stairs"" or ""The Sirens"", nevertheless resembled them. The interior of Biba has been described by the biographer of British 20th century designer Laura Ashley as having an atmosphere that ""reeked of sex ... [It] was designed to look like a bordello with its scarlet, black and gold plush fitments, but, interestingly, it implied"
"Derry & Toms Derry & Toms was a London department store that was founded in 1853 in Kensington High Street and was famous for its Roof Garden which opened in 1938. In 1973 the store was closed and became home to Big Biba, which closed in 1975. The site was developed into smaller stores and offices. In 1853 Joseph Toms opened a small drapery shop on Kensington High Street. In 1862 Joseph Toms joined forces with his brother-in-law, Charles Derry to set up Derry & Toms. By 1870 the business had grown to incorporate seven of the surrounding stores, with"
"exclusive venue for leading figures in the Swinging London era. Its major shareholders and owners were advertising copywriter Kevin Macdonald, photographer Terry Howard, and property developer Bruce Higham, while baronet and champion horse rider William Pigott-Brown provided much of the finance for the venture. George Harrison of the Beatles was given a shareholding in the club, in return for the publicity his association would bring, and disc jockey Alan Freeman was also a shareholder. The club's interior was designed by David Mlinaric. Since Sibylla's closed, the site has continued to be a nightclub location. In their plan for the club,"
"in London. Its Chief Executive is Edward Cooke. Revo (organisation) Revo, (Retail Evolution), previously the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) is a non-profit professional body and membership organisation in the United Kingdom serving the retail property and placemaking industry. Revo represents the interests of its members, sets standards and brings people together to collaborate and create tangible changes in the retail property market. Its aim is to foster a professional, socially responsible and progressive retail property industry while enhancing members' commercial advantage through events, award and education programmes, research publications and influencing local and national government policy. The organisation"
"this massive undertaking, Hulanicki said, ""Every time I went into the shop, I was afraid it would be for the last time."" No one was aware of how serious the financial difficulties were going to be - and they proved too much for the new entrepreneurs; as a result Dorothy Perkins and Dennis Day came to save the day and bought 75% of Biba. This led to the formation of Biba Ltd, which meant that the brand and the store could now be properly financed. After disagreements with the Board over creative control, Hulanicki left the company and, shortly afterwards"
"Bobby Arora Bobby Arora (born January 1972) is a British billionaire businessman, trading director of the retail chain B & M. Bobby Arora was born in January 1972. In 1995, he went into business with his brother Simon Arora, and founded Orient Sourcing Services, importing homewares from Asia and supplying them to UK retail chains, before buying B & M in 2004, which was then a struggling grocery chain based in Blackpool. He has been trading director of B&M since 2005. Jointly with his brothers Simon and Robin, they have a net worth of £1.92 billion. Simon describes his brother"
"with Rohit Bal, a niche collection, BIBA by Rohit Bal, was launched in 2013 to be retailed at select BIBA stores. The collection’s main focus was embroidery, gold and silver cutwork, and elegant Mughal block print patterns. Biba Apparels Biba Apparels is an Indian fashion brand founded by Meena Bindra in 1988 from her home in New Delhi, India. It has more than 150 brand outlets and 225 multi-brand outlets. Biba recorded sales of INR 600 crore in 2014-15. In 1982, Meena Bindra started the company from her home in New Delhi. She took 8000 rupees loan to start a"
"source of inspiration to the street style of the youth. Boutiques Biba, Bazaar and Paraphernalia housed talent like Betsey Johnson and Emmanuelle Khanh and utilized mass-production to fill their shops with the latest trends. These boutiques were key players in London and the US as they were the first to cater specifically to the youth market with a modern approach: ""clothes displayed like art in a gallery, cooler-than-thou young salesgirls, and rock and roll blaring from the speakers—shops that marketed clothes as part of a whole, deliriously amusing lifestyle"". The Scott Paper Company took advantage of mass-production and created disposable"
"the girls moved and more people appeared in the shop. I had sold every dress by 11."" After the last dress had been sold, people were still lining up inside waiting for the next delivery. The shops' main appeal was what was seen on TV on Friday night could now be bought on Saturday and worn that night. As the Biba style (tight cut skinny sleeves, earthy colours) and logo became more and more recognisable, the more and more people wanted to be seen in it. The second store at 19-21 Kensington Church Street opened in 1965 and a series"
"in the first store, Little painted the Biba sign above the shop and blacked out all the windows. The blacked out windows didn’t allow the store’s interior to receive any sunlight, which was vital for the Biba’s art nouveau atmosphere. The Biba logo was customized in various ways to be appropriate for all the different products. Every product had the Biba logo on it. The labels showing size, color and price all resembled a similar style. Biba was the first to set a standard for brand marketing and the first high street store to create a look for itself. The"