Step back into Biba’s world: Fashion and Textile museum revisits the swinging sixties

An exhibition about one of the biggest brands of the 1960s and 70s fashion world opens with a simple dress made from the sort of fabric that used to adorn cheap cafe tables. But that dress was to start the revolution that turned Biba from a small mail-order catalogue into the occupiers of a huge department store that, at one point, was one of London’s biggest tourist attractions.The Biba exhibition at Bermondsey’s Fashion and Textile Museum tries to understand what made Biba so desir