Friday, April 5, 2024

Beehives and Biba: 60s fashion comes out swinging in 2024

From the revival of a London style mecca to TV’s Palm Royale, the decade is making a comeback

Barbra Streisand once waltzed in without ceremony, Jimi Hendrix was a customer, and John Lennon’s white limo would sometimes pull up outside. Salman Rushdie called it his “60s education in cool”. Granny Takes a Trip, the King’s Road boutique that opened in London in 1966 and became a countercultural hangout, is relaunching with a little help from the Rolling Stones.

Dark and patchouli-scented, Rushdie has written how, “to the assorted heads and freaks who hung out there, it was the Mecca, the Olympus, the Kathmandu of hippy chic”.

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