Biba Story curator Martin Pel and Barbara ... readers an offer that might not sound out of the ordinary – a pink gingham dress and matching headscarf. But it was an offer that would change ...

Within the exhibition, visitors are greeted by a replica of the first ever Biba dress – “a simple shift in pink Gingham with a cut out back and matching headscarf” – that would go on to become the ...

The shop was called Biba, the nickname of Hulanicki's younger ... the heart of the fashion world began with "a short pink gingham shift dress based loosely on the one Brigitte Bardot wore in ...