PrintBiba & I
Wednesday 24th February 2010
At The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1 (Russell Square Tube Piccadilly Line)
Doors 8pm Performance begins 8.30pm
Tickets: £5
To reserve tickets email: guy(at)theculturalpick.com
Each ticket includes the current issue of Plectrum – The Cultural Pick magazine
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Plectrum Live Edition presents
Biba & I
An evening of illustrated and music accompanied Biba tales
with Delisia Howard & Chris Price
Barbara Hulanicki was born in Warsaw and her father Witold Hulanicki was both an Olympic athlete, captaining the 1932 Polish team, but also a diplomat. As a result of his posting, she spent her formative years in Palestine, sailing from Gdansk three days before the Nazis invaded Poland, but following her father’s murder in 1948 she moved with her mother and sisters to live with her Polish expatriate aunt, in Brighton. Her Aunt Sophie was a key inspiration on Barbara Hulanicki’s fashion career and on Biba, the shop and label that she founded in 1964, Biba changed the face of fashion in the 1960s and 1970s and left an indelible mark on the minds and wardrobes of all those who ventured through the doors of the successive incarnations of the shop. Nearly half a century later Biba and Barbara Hulanicki continue to inspire new generations - her collection for Topshop which launched in April 2009 sold out within a matter of days.
In Delisia Howard, Hulanicki found not only the ‘perfect Biba-body’ (from 1968 Howard became the Biba in-house model on whom Hulanicki would fit and refine all her sample clothing designs) but also a meeting of minds. Howard worked very closely with Hulanicki, fulfilling a myriad of roles including being in charge of Biba cosmetics - which saw her making-up everyone from Jean Shrimpton to the New York Dolls in the Biba palette.
Now, with her husband, the illustrator Chris Price, Howard has created the imprint Hazard Books, to produce fabulous limited edition and handmade books, two of which, InBiba, and SinBiba, have continued their creative collaboration with Barbara Hulanicki, as they also feature her illustrations.
The books InBiba & SinBiba by Delisia Howard, Chris Price, and Barbara Hulanicki, in addition to other books from the Hazard imprint, which Delisia and Chris will be happy to sign, will also be for sale on the night, with the cover prices specially reduced by 15%
www.bibabook.com
As will copies of the limited edition DVD boxset of the documentary Beyond Biba: A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki at a specially discounted price of £20
www.beyondbibamovie.com
(Please note no credit or debit card facilities are available on the night)