TWO TRENDY:
Hulanicki, at left, and Quant put the swing into the '60s and made retailing sexy
Pausing to snatch a paisley dress from the rack, the shopper ran, screaming, for the exit. A terror group, the Angry Brigade, had planted a bomb in the London clothing store, Biba, on May Day 1971. "The only thing you can do with modern slave houses called boutiques is
WRECK THEM
," read the group's communiqué, concluding with a single word:
REVOLUTION
. Their bomb duly
exploded
, but did less damage than shoplifters light-fingered customers, who'd already inflicted annual losses amounting to 12% of Biba's sales, took full advantage of the sudden evacuation to loot the...
