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This photograph show the distinctive Biba fashion shop’s mannequins displayed in the window at the store’s third premises in Kensington High Street, London, where it had moved in 1969. (In 1974, the store expanded and moved to the five-storey Derry & Toms department store, also on Kensington High Street). Biba was started in 1964 and primarily run by the Polish-born fashion illustrator Barbara Hulanicki (b.1936) with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon. Biba It became a hangout for artists, film stars and rock musicians, including Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Marianne Faithful among the regular customers. The shop’s style was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, A

Photograph · London · 1969. Gelatin silver print. By Lora Verner. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.