书名：欢迎来到Big Biba Welcome to Big Biba

作者：Steven Thomas

ISBN:9781851496648

类型：精装

出版日期：2011/10/01

出版社：ACC Art Books Ltd

页数：96

尺寸：300 mm x 222 mm

内容简介：

Barbara Hulanicki 的高街时装店终于迎来了自己的高光时刻。这是一个神话般的梦幻宫殿，将好莱坞奢华时髦的气氛引入了零售界。Big Biba只经营了两年就成为经济衰退浪潮的受害者，但这家世界上最美的时装店对其以往的常客和那些有相见恨晚之感的顾客依然具有吸引力。

Big Biba, the final flowering of Barbara Hulanicki's legendary Biba store in London, was a shop like no other, before or since. It was a fabulous fantasy palace that brought the indulgence of Hollywood to the world of retail. Big Biba lasted just two years before it fell victim to recession, but the myth of the most beautiful store in the world continues to enchant both its former habitués and those who came to it too late.

Founded as a corner-shop selling just one dress, Biba had grown in less than a decade to become a seven-storey department store filled with own-brand products throughout. Here the committed Bibaphile could buy not only a new wardrobe, fully co-ordinated from head to toe, but also a complete range of cosmetics and soft furnishings, together with the washing powder to care for her clothes, and food for both herself and her pets, all presented in the distinctive Biba packaging. Alternatively she could just hang out, either lounging in the shop-windows (Biba didn't do window-displays), or sipping cocktails upstairs amongst the flamingos that lived in the Roof Garden, or in the Rainbow Room, where on a good night there might be a live performance by the likes of the New York Dolls, Liberace or The Manhattan Transfer.

Welcome to Big Biba is dedicated entirely to this dreamland, with over 150 colour photographs of the store and of the products and graphics created for the various departments, from bathrooms to ball-gowns, from cosmetics to colouring-books.

Styled by Steven Thomas, the designer of Big Biba itself, and with text by Alwyn W Turner, author of The Biba Experience, this book evokes the glamour, humour and fantasy of the store, the audacious style that could turn a shop girl into a Hollywood star.