{"id":132713,"date":"2020-02-18T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/18\/bibas-barbara-hulanicki-when-youre-designing-you-have-to-blank-yourself-out\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:42:58","slug":"bibas-barbara-hulanicki-when-youre-designing-you-have-to-blank-yourself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132713","title":{"rendered":"Biba&#039;s Barbara Hulanicki: &#039;When you\u2019re designing, you have to blank yourself out&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The designer and founder on starting out in London in 1964 and being inspired by Marlene Dietrich and Audrey HepburnThis picture was taken for the press around the time we lost Biba [the shop, on Kensington High Street in London, closed in 1975]. I\u2019m wearing a pair of black satin pyjamas with off-white piping \u2013 I\u2019d been inspired by Marlene Dietrich, who was pictured wearing something similar. We did pyjamas in our first Biba catalogue, too \u2013 it\u2019s a look that\u2019s been going for ever. In Miami, where I now live, all the department stores are still full of it.This look was very Biba: satin was our big thing. People would often wear our negligees and nighties out in the evenings. It\u2019s the sort of thing I would have worn to a party or dinner, but not to work \u2013 it\u2019s too floppy. I\u2019m also wearing a collection of vintage jewellery. In those days, the vintage stuff, oh my God. It was amazing. Now it\u2019s so expensive and all the good stuff is gone. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/feb\/18\/bibas-barbara-hulanicki-when-youre-designing-you-have-to-blank-yourself-out\" target=\"_blank\">Biba&#039;s Barbara Hulanicki: &#039;When you\u2019re designing, you have to blank yourself out&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The designer and founder on starting out in London in 1964 and being inspired by Marlene Dietrich and Audrey HepburnThis picture was taken for the press around the time we lost Biba [the shop, on Kensington High Street in London, closed in 1975]. I\u2019m wearing a pair of black satin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}