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Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Publication date September 1, 2006
Pages 79
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781851495245
ISBN-10 185149524X
Dimensions 1 by 9.50 by 13.75 in.
Weight 2.45 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $35.00
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 habitu,s 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-disp

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9781851495245 | details & prices | 79 pages | 9.50 × 13.75 × 1.00 in. | 2.45 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Big Biba , the final flowering of Barbara Hulanicki's legendary Biba store in London, was a shop like no other, before or since.

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