Étienne Aigner, born in 1904 in Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia), was a Hungarian-born designer who founded two separate high fashion houses: Etienne Aigner US based in New York City and Etienne Aigner AG based in Munich, Germany. The brand is renowned for luxury goods including handbags, shoes, women's ready-to-wear, wallets, and leather accessories. Aigner began his career as a bookbinder and leather craftsman, moving to Paris in the 1930s where he created custom high-end leather goods fo...
r haute couture boutiques and collaborated with designers like Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga. In 1950, he launched his own collection in New York, introducing the iconic horseshoe-shaped "A" logo, symbolizing luck and his monogram. The brand expanded through licensing in the 1980s to inclu
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