Freddie meets Mary...and her coat I don't usually talk in movies, but there was a point in "Bohemian Rhapsody" where I couldn't help it. The pretty blond girl Freddie Mercury is flirting with tells him her fur-collared coat “is from Biba." And her friend follows with, "She works there." I exclaimed out loud, "Biba!" That is a word to trigger memories, flashbacks and regrets (as in I shouldn't have given those clothes away). Biba was a store of legend never to be equaled. I've written about it here: https://allwaysinfashion.blogspot.com/2011/11/bit-of-biba.html Freddie goes to look for the pretty girl, who is Mary Austin, the woman who became his great love and lifelong friend. As this is supposed to be 1970, that would be Biba on London's Kensington High Street. This was the brand's third store, which had previously been a carpet showroom. Interior of an early Biba Freddie has found Mary, the sales associate, near a display of ...