The story of Pari's love affair with all things BIBA is a story of happen chance, tenacity and passion.

Having arrived in Britain from her native Berlin Pari's original dream was to find fame and fortune as a singer.
But her fate was changed one Friday morning 14 years ago, as she browsed the stalls of Portobello market, by a chance encounter with an immaculately tailored BIBA jacket. This discovery of her first BIBA garment came as a religious revelation: "I spotted this jacket on a dummy and ended up circling around it for ages. There was something so interesting about it, nothing I've ever seen before. It was beautiful, double breasted with a big collar. I didn't know anything about BIBA then, and the stall holder explained about the store, the whole concept. He made me try it on. It was the first thing that had ever fitted me perfectly,it fitted like a glove. I was flabbergasted".

That was it, she was hooked. Quite literally she now views the days she spent trawling London's vintage markets and stores as obsessional.
Many a morning Pari would be up before dawn to ensure she didn't miss a thing. Traipsing around from stall to stall, shop to shop, Pari soon became a familiar face among London's street fashion vendors. Her vivacious personality and alluring beauty meant that once met she is rarely forgotten.
So before long she became known as the 'BIBA GIRL'. She studied everything about BIBA, gathered all the information she could get and had the great pleasure of meeting endless woman who regaled her with exciting stories about their BIBA days to give her the real picture.

This was a labour of love, the hope of uncovering another item of BIBA among the bundles of clothes unfurled each morning drove Pari on. Occasionally Pari would discover a really fabulous piece, it was like striking gold.
During her sprees she also came across other designers of the 60's and 70's that took her fancy. And while BIBA always remained Pari's primary passion, she also accumulated a significant COLLECTION of OSSIE CLARK.

By the mid nineties, with the renaissance of 60's and 70's fashion, Pari began to gain celebrity. The 'Collection' she had gathered over the years was so sought after for fashion shoots and hire, that Pari herself became a newsworthy subject.

Interviews with Pari followed, featuring in the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Standard/ES Magazine plus T.V. appearances on Channel 4's Collectors Lot, ITV's 'after 5' and Continental T.V.

Over time Pari's reputation as a collector and fashion guru became global.
She came to the notice of Zandra Rhodes and other fashion designers, museums and private collectors from as far afield as Japan and Los Angeles. One significant connection that Pari made was with Cameron Silver, the proprietor of Decades (www.decades@decadesinc.com) an upmarket vintage clothes store on Los Angeles hip Melrose Avenue. After a little negotiating, it was decided that they should collaborate in a retrospective exhibition and sale of Pari's OSSIE CLARK COLLECTION.

OSSIE CLARK dressed the stars of the 60's and 70's including Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Faye Dunaway, Sharon Tate, Elisabeth Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, the list is endless. But Ossie was more than a designer of flattering couture, he was a star in his own right and shared his clients lifestyle.
The exhibition attracted enormous publicity Stateside featuring in Magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Soma, Los Angeles weekly and the N.Y. Times amongst others.
The sale was a complete success and dresses were sold to celebrities such as Sandra Bullock, Kirsty Ally, Kate Hudson, Marisa Tomei, Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellwegger, Tracey Ullman and Peta Wilson.

It was the success of this enterprise that has prompted Pari to offer for sale her complete 'Collection' of BIBA. Hoping that perhaps a museum or an enlightened private collector with the resources to stage a permanent exhibition will purchase her collection as a whole and allow the public access, so that many might enjoy the BIBA experience as much as Pari has.........................