Milica Babić-Jovanović

[5] Though she was based in Belgrade, throughout her career she traveled to work on productions across the region, including in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Skopje, Ljubljana, and Dubrovnik.

[1][2] Babić-Jovanović's work is characterized by a refined style, a careful use of color, and the incorporation of traditional folk elements and ornaments.

[2] During World War II, her husband spent time in the Dachau concentration camp, on false charges of being an English spy.

[2][7] After the war, she returned to working in the theater in Belgrade, making costumes out of sacks and parachute silk due to the postwar economic situation.

[2] After Nenad died in 1957, she married the Nobel Prize-winning writer Ivo Andrić, with whom she had been close long before her first husband's death.