Retail design the middle of town. The first shopping centre in the Netherlands was built in the 1950s, as retail design ideas began spreading east. The next evolution of retail design was the creation of the boutique in the 1960s, which emphasized retail design run by individuals. Some of the earliest examples of boutiques are the Biba boutique created by Barbara Hulanicki and the Habitat line of stores made by Terence Conran. The rise of the boutique was followed, in the next two decades, with an overall increase in consumer spending across the developed world. This rise made retail design shift to
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