Babani

Firm offering fabrics and clothing established in 1919 by Madame Babani in a shop on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. She sold Liberty fabrics as well as the Renaissance-inspired ones created by Mariano Fortuny. Like Maria Gallenga, Babani was an imitative follower of Fortuny, from whom she separated in order to pursue a lesser sophistication and a taste for embroidery. The firm was in business for ten years.