Biba Biba Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon. Biba's early years were rather humble, with many of the outfits being cheap and available to the public by mail order. Biba’s postal boutique had its first significant success in May 1964 when it offered a pink gingham dress with a hole cut out of the back of the neck with a matching triangular kerchief to readers of the "Daily Mirror". The dress had celebrity appeal, as a similar dress
Swinging London Town time Gucci-girl, a first in retail therapy / I'm on a downward slide to rehab and all of it's for free." The lyrics also contain a veiled reference towards cocaine with the lyric "joke-fuelled ego." The lyrics also name drop former It girl Edie Sedgwick's 1965 film "Poor Little Rich Girl", while the title itself refers to the 1960s term Swinging London. "Swinging London Town" was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, and Matt Gray, and produced by Higgins and his production team Xenomania. The production of the song was described as "a dark, squiggly synth pop epic