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Byline: editor: Sally Singer HAMISH BOWLES
Scottish designer Bill Gibb defined the hippie-deluxe look of 1970s London.
British designers are storytellers, dreamers," says John Galliano. "This was really the essence of the romance behind Bill Gibb." Now V&A/Abrams publishes Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy, by Iain R. Webb, an illuminative homage to a Scottish-born design fantasist whose work defined the creativity and escapism of London fashion in the late sixties and seventies, and whose influence continues to resonate through the decades. "We both use frivolity and the exotic to create beauty and seduction for our generation's butterflies," says Galliano.
Gibb's hippie-deluxe designs--elaborately layered print, color, and texture vaguely medieval or Art Nouveau--perfectly captured the ...