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Barbara Hulanicki
Fashion designer and founder of Biba clothes store
Barbara HulanickiOBE (b. 1936) is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of clothes store Biba.[1]
Early life
Hulanicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents.[2] Her father, Witold Hulanicki, was assassinated by the nationalist organisation Lehi in Jerusalem in 1948,[2][3] and the family moved to Brighton, England.[4][5]
Career
While studying from 1954 to 1956 at the Brighton School of Art,[6] Hulanicki won an Evening Standard competition in 1955 for beachwear.
She began her career in fashion as a freelance fashion illustrator for various magazines, including Vogue, Tatler and Women's Wear Daily.
Hulanicki sold her first designs through a small mail-order business[6] that was featured in the fashion columns of newspapers such as the London Daily Mirror.