How AIGNER, changed the Handbag world

How AIGNER, changed the Handbag world

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Madam Aigner, photographed in Germany in triplicate, wears her own design: a casual dress with a casual leather cross body bag.

The strong Brown colour provided an uninterrupted line, another key feature of the

Agner style.

This betrays the company’s association with equestrian matters: Aigner Racing Days held outside Munich are a fixture of the racing calendar. The founder of the company, Etienne Aigner (1904-2000), was bron in Hungary and moved to Paris in the 1930s to learn the craft of leathe working.

 A meeting with businessman Heiner H Rankl led to the formation of the Aigner brand in Munich, Germany, in 1965. Munich was chosen not only as the best place to found a new leading fashion brand, but also because of its proximity to the Italian border. 

All the design and production of the label is undertaken in Florence, where the leather for the handbags is elaborately ground, tanned, sewn and polished by hand.  As the company claims, “its heart beats in Munich, but its soul lives in Tuscany”

 Colour to intensify line is enhanced by the light green cowl draped around her high piled, chignon hairstyle and caught up in a belt.

The whole aura is that of a Byzantine emperor’s consort. The grand manner of Madame By the late 1940s he was designing exclusive bags for the couture houses, such as Lanvin, Dior and Rochas. He eventually moved to Ne York in 1950s where he presented his first handbag collection under his own name.

The costume also has a theatrical air, traceable to Madame By the late 1940s he was designing exclusive bags for the couture houses, such as Lanvin, Dior and Rochas. He eventually moved to Ne York in 1950s where he presented his first handbag collection under his own name.

 training for the stage. Her fashionable evening bags was very popular with actresses.