The Biography

Bárbara Hulanicki is a Polish fashion-designer, best known as the founder of iconic clothes store Biba. While studying from 1954 to 1956 at the Brighton School of Art, now the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, she won a London Evening Standard-newspaper competition in 1955 for beachwear. Her career in fashion began as a freelance fashion illustrator for various magazines, including Vogue, Tatler and Women's Wear Daily.