Barbara Hulanicki

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Barbara Hulanicki OBE (born December 8, 1936 in Warsaw ) is an English fashion designer .

Life

Her father Witold Hulanicki was a Polish diplomat in Palestine and was murdered on February 26, 1948 in Sheikh Badr near Jerusalem by members of the radical Zionist Stern gang . The mother moved with her three daughters from Palestine to Brighton in southern England . Barbara Hulanicki studied at the Brighton School of Art and won the swimwear competition at the Evening Standard in London in 1955 . First she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for several magazines such as VOGUE , Tatler and Women's Wear Daily . Then she sold her designs via newspaper advertisements in Modespalten u. a. in the Daily Mirror .

Together with her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon, she founded the Biba fashion house with prêt-à-porter clothing in London- Kensington in 1964 . Biba was particularly known for the atmosphere of the swinging sixties and elaborate decorations in the spirit of Art Nouveau and Art Deco . The store became a London meeting place for actors, rock musicians and artists such as Mick Jagger , The Rolling Stones , David Bowie , Marianne Faithfull and Cathy McGowan, the presenter of Ready Steady Go  ! . Here Anna Wintour began her professional career in the fashion industry. In 1976 Biba was closed due to bankruptcy .

She then continued to work in the fashion industry, creating the fashion labels Fiorucci and Cacharel and, from 1980–1992, designed a fashion series with children's clothing and mini skirts for the Japanese youth market. From 1980–1987 she worked as a fashion photographer for the London Evening Standard newspaper. She traveled to Miami , Florida in 1987 and designed interior design for Chris Blackwell's hotels in Jamaica and the Bahamas . She designed a new collection of handbags for spring / summer 2009 for the Italian fashion company Coccinelle and modern wallpaper patterns for Graham & Brown Wallpaper .

Barbara Hulanicki holds honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and the University of Brighton . For her services in the fashion industry, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2012.

Fonts (selection)

  • From-A-to Biba . London 1983.
  • Disgrace . London 1990.
  • with Joanna Skórska (translation): Hańba . Rebis, Poznań 1994, ISBN 978-83-7120-041-0 . / German: JM Coetzee : Shame . (Disgrace).
  • Delisa Howard: In Biba. A graphic romance .London 2005.
  • Delisia Howard: Sinbiba . London 2006.
  • Steven Thomas: Welcome to Big Biba. Inside the most beautiful store in the world . Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 2006.
  • From A to Biba. The autobiography of Barbara Hulanicki . V&A, London 2007.
  • Biba and beyond. Barbara Hulanicki . London 2012.
  • Seamless from Biba. A life in design . Bleck Spring Press, London 2012.

filming

  • 2009: Beyond Biba. A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki. Documentary , directed by Louis Price, DVD.

Awards and honors

  • Honorary Doctorate from Academic Institutions Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
  • Honorary Doctorate from the University of Brighton
  • 1993: American Institute of Architects Award
  • 2011: Prize at Global Fashion Awards
  • 2012: Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elsbeth Diehl-Wobbe: Barbara Hulanicki is celebrating her 75th birthday. (No longer available online.) [1] , December 8, 2011, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved November 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.textilwirtschaft.de
  2. ^ Designer Barbara Hulanicki. In: www.grahambrown.com. Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Hulanicki Photostram. Zimbio , October 20, 2011, accessed November 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Hulanicki, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw