Beyond Biba - Plectrum Live Edition

The latest Plectrum Live Edition event showcases the film 'Beyond Biba.'

'Beyond Biba' will be introduced by the film's director Louis Price PLUS model Jan de Villeneuve & artist and illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve in conversation
with editor of Plectrum Guy Sangster Adams, telling Biba tales and discussing Biba's continuing influence.

Beyond Biba posters signed by Barbara Hulanicki, and artwork and books by Daisy de Villeneuve, will also be for sale on the night

Wednesday 30th September
Doors 7.30pm In Conversation/Screening begins 8pm
Tickets: £9/£7.50 (concessions)
To reserve tickets email: guy@theculturalpick.com
Each ticket includes a copy of Plectrum MAGAZINE issue 3

BEYOND BIBA
(2009, November Films, 55 mins, director Louis Price: featuring Barbara Hulanicki, Molly Parkin, Gerald Posner, Twiggy, Ronnie Wood)

Barbara Hulanicki will always be remembered for Biba, the shop that changed the face of fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. A phenomenon in the truest sense of the word, Biba would leave an indelible mark on the minds and the wardrobes of those who ventured through its doors.

Just as Barbara was a key ingredient in the cultural explosion that occurred in London in the 1960s, she also found herself at the birth of the incredible cultural regeneration of Miami Beach in the late 1980s and 1990s. This is where she still resides, and continues to work as highly influential interior designer.

The film provides an invaluable glimpse into Barbara Hulanicki today. A rare insight into the woman herself, her memories of her father's murder, the impossible glamour of Biba, the impact of her husband Fitz on her life, her thoughts on modern America, and her refusal to give up and live in the shadow of the past.

JAN de VILLENEUVE began modelling in 1966 and first came to London from the USA in 1968 to work for Norman Parkinson. She quickly became an iconic face of both the 1960s and 1970s. She also quickly became an habituée of Biba. Through her husband to be, the photographer Justin de Villeneuve, she met and became close friends with Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Fitz. Putting her career on pause for 13 years in 1975 to raise her daughters Daisy and Poppy, she returned to modelling in 1988 and is currently on the books of Models 1 as she continues her celebrated career of 30 years of modelling across 40 plus years.

DAISY de VILLENEUVE is an artist and illustrator who has been referred to as ‘The Last Biba Baby'; born when Big Biba, the last incarnation of the store, was closing down her mum, Jan, and Barbara Hulanicki surrounded her not only with Biba clothes, but also furniture, objects, and fittings from the shop, even down to her cot, bedclothes and pram. Immersed in Biba colours and style from the word go, Biba has remained a key influence on her personal style and her work.

www.daisydevilleneuve.com

 

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Thu, 24/09/2009 - 10:03 — Admin