The Maison
A house born of a family story
Aurega is a French family business created in 2010 in L’Honor-de-Cos, in the Tarn-et-Garonne. A mother, a son, one craft: hat-making.
The founders
Danielle and Vincent, a craft shared
Before Aurega, two paths that answer one another: experience of the craft on one side, the drive to build on the other.
Co-founder
Danielle Garrigues
Nearly twenty-eight years spent in the administration of a hat company gave her an intimate knowledge of the trade: the materials, the shapes, the seasons, the clients. She is the one who brings Aurega the memory of hat-making.
Co-founder
Vincent Rességuier
After a career in finance in Paris, he chose to return to the Tarn-et-Garonne to build, with his mother, a house in their own image: demanding about the product, simple in its relationships, attached to its home ground.
“Together they then created Aurega: a house that unites the memory of the craft with the desire to move it forward.”
The origin of the name
AUrientis
REsséguier
GArrigues
Aurega
Three syllables that bring together a family story and a place: the name Aurega carries those who founded the Maison.
Our story
From distribution to the workshop
Since 2010, a coherent path: first designing and distributing, then — when the world came to a halt — learning to make.
Our values
What we hold to
Family
Aurega was born of a mother-and-son duo and keeps building itself the way one keeps a house: over time, with loyalty.
Craftsmanship
Gestures learned, repeated, passed on. The hand remains at the centre of what we do, from shaping to trimming.
Territory
Based in L’Honor-de-Cos, the Maison is proud to keep a hat-making craft alive in the Tarn-et-Garonne.
Today
A complete house
Design, French manufacturing for part of the models, international sourcing, trade distribution, boutiques: Aurega now brings together every side of the craft, in the service of women’s and men’s collections that last through the seasons.
250+
models in the catalogue
400+
hats that can be produced each day