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						BIC OWEN BIO by DEBUT MAGAZINE
			Disillusioned with the fickle fashion scene in London  last year,  Bic Owen took an unpredictable gamble and decided to take her entire 1983  Autumn collection to New York.  Fortunately for bic the gamble paid off.  Bloomingdales,  the fashionable NYC department store, ordered the whole of her collection.  This soon led to an introduction to August Darnell of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.  So impressed was the Kid with Bic's fine tailoring that he promptly commissioned her to design the entire male wardrobe for his last tour and video - "The Lifeboat Party". Bic Owen hails from Cardiff and first becane interested in fashion design after working in the costume department for the BBC.  She completed a three year fashion design  course before going on to make a name for herself selling her unique garments through popular outlets lie Whistles and Medina. Bic recently returned from New York and is now living and working in London.  She has designed an interesting collection of winter clothes based on the theme from  'A Midsummer NIghts Dream' .  Part of the collection comprises short jackets and skirts in grey and beige flannel which compliment silk chiffon and mother-of-pearl accessories.  She is also currently designing the stage clothes for the be-bop stompers,  The JoBoxers. Theatrical producer of the ICA Michael Morris plans a 'performing clothes show' from October 8th.  The idea,  he says,  is to take the clothes off the catwalk and show them as total theatre.  I canīt wait! He knows nothting whatsoever about the designers that he has got together for the show.  "I just heard their names being dropped constantly and that was good enough for me." Along with Bic Owen,  the designers taking part of the show inclucde Leigh Bowery with his unpredictable post punk creations,  Helen Littman of English Eccentrics, Lek wh works with Dexter Wong,  designer of Boy George's clothes and the avant-guarde milliner Stephen Jones After London the show goes on the road to Manchester,  Edinburgh and then on to New York to coincide with the opening of Debbie Moore's Pineapple Studios.   ( DEBUT  MAG - ISSUE05 ) BIC OWEN MENU