Decades in Design

Vintage fashion & design from the archives of angie smith.
This major fashion exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery celebrates the innovative, unique and distinctive creative flair that Barbara Hulanicki has brought to all of her work. It will review her life from her childhood, early career in fashion illustration, and her creation of Biba in the 1960s; to her key role in the regeneration of Miami Beach and her recent High Street fashion and interiors collections. Featuring numerous key and rare BIBA artefacts and from major fashion collector and historian, Angie Smith, the exhibition will tell Hulanicki’s amazing story through illustrations, film, fashion, music, photography, ephemera and the memories and reminiscences of those who shared the experience.

This major fashion exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery celebrates the innovative, unique and distinctive creative flair that Barbara Hulanicki has brought to all of her work. It will review her life from her childhood, early career in fashion illustration, and her creation of Biba in the 1960s; to her key role in the regeneration of Miami Beach and her recent High Street fashion and interiors collections.

Featuring numerous key and rare BIBA artefacts and from major fashion collector and historian, Angie Smith, the exhibition will tell Hulanicki’s amazing story through illustrations, film, fashion, music, photography, ephemera and the memories and reminiscences of those who shared the experience.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba apple print cotton smock dress  c.1964.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba 1940s style strawberry print cotton dress  c.1971.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969. Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Vintage Biba cotton balloon sleeve dress and shorts c.1969.

Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8. Copyright 2012.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8.

All in a day’s work. Working with vintage fashion in a contemporary context.  Wardrobe and styling: Angie Smith. Photographer: Aiste Lei. Make-up and hair: Monica Mao. Model: Ana at Oxygen. Location: Happy Kitchen, Spitalfields, London E8.