B. Altman and Company

B.Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain that was founded by Benjamin Altman in New York City in 1865.

The original store was located on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By 1906, Altman had expanded its activity and consequently decided to relocate to Midtown, on the famous Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets. The Fifth Avenue building was designed in Italian Renaissance Style by the famous architectural firm Trowbridge & Livingston.

It provided Americans with high fashion and upscale clothing. More specifically it sold perfume, china, art, furniture, tailored clothes, coats and shoes.

Throughout the second postwar decades, the department store took part in making American consumers increasingly familiar and in love with Italian high fashion, selling both clothes and leather apparel by some of the leading Italian fashion designers of the time. B. Altmand and Company was in fact one of Giorgini's most important clients in the US, thanks to the intermediation of Gertrude Ziminsky, one of Altman's appointed buyers and a long-time friend of Giorgini.

B.Altman and Company definitively closed in 1990.

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