Rainbow Room

While at the Tommy Nutter show (the subject of the previous post), there was a small side room which looked a bit like a boardroom- and is probably used that way when so needed.  But on the day that I was there, nobody was around and there was an exhibition of 1960s-1970s era photographs of some photographer or other.  I gave it a quick go through and was thrilled to find beyond the recognizable shots of David Bowie as Ziggy amongst others some lovely portraits of Twiggy in her heyday.  For some reason, her allure as an icon has attracted me like no other former model (of any generation, and especially not of the contemporary one)- and one photograph in specific (of her, seated alone, in the Rainbow Room of the Biba store) drew me in, awestruck and starstruck, into her world (and that world) for a brief and very shining moment.  Before leaving the museum, though, I picked up a book on Biba written by the woman herself- and it promises to be full of the times when her store (or empire) was the place to be for young and forward looking young girls.