Grant gets front-row seat at sixties show

Hugh Grant at the Biba show. Picture / Reuters

Hugh Grant took to the front row of London Fashion Week for the hottest ticket in town - the revival of iconic 60s label Biba.

More than 40 years on from its launch, the brand that helped define the Swinging Sixties came back to life as a more luxurious line for the 21st- century hippy.

Designer Bella Freud, Sigmund's great granddaughter, rubbed shoulders with Grant and a gaggle of fashion editors for a show that organisers had hoped would lend some 60s buzz to the flagging London fashion event.