Women's Fashion Brands Y

Welcome to the Y section of the Women's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find women's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter Y: one brand profile in all, gathered in the grid below in the original directory's listing order. Y is one of the directory's shortest letters for women's brands - a single, very considerable name carries it - and this hub says so honestly rather than padding the letter with names the original directory did not list.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter Y and is not listed in this section, please let us know, as the original Y hub invited readers to do. And if you prefer to search by clothing category rather than by a specific clothing brand, the Clothes Guide linked from this page organises the same wardrobe by garment instead of by name, while the A-to-Z letter links the original hub carried ride in this page's alphabet bar, exactly as the directory has always laid them out.

The One Y Brand: Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent SAS, also known as Saint Laurent, is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, per its original profile. Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, founded his eponymous fashion label in 1961 and is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century. The company revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under former creative director Hedi Slimane, and in April 2016 Anthony Vaccarello was appointed as the creative director. A Saint Laurent store offers a wide range of luxury handbags, ready to wear, shoes, leather goods and accessories.

That single profile is the whole of the letter, and it is a complete brand record in itself: a named founder with a dated founding, a partner credited beside him, a couture revival with its year and creative director, a dated change of creative direction, and a five-family product range stated plainly. A researcher arriving at Y finds not a fragment but a finished entry - the directory's Y letter is short because only one women's brand name in its records begins with Y, not because the entry is unfinished.

How to Use This Y Profile

Read the Yves Saint Laurent profile for the record its original actually kept. It gives the house under its full name and its short name, the 1961 founding of the eponymous label, the designer's standing as the original assessed it - foremost in the twentieth century, influential from the 1960s to the present day - and the two dated modern events, the 2015 haute couture revival and the April 2016 appointment of Anthony Vaccarello. The profile also points onward, as the original did, to the companion Saint Laurent record under S and to the designer records for Yves Saint Laurent and Hedi Slimane.

The original Y hub gave one more piece of guidance, kept here: if you are specifically looking to review luxury fashion, you can try the Fashion Brand Directory - sound advice for this letter above all, since its single brand is a luxury house. Where the original pointed readers onward - to its one brand, and across the whole A-to-Z of women's brand letters - those editorial links are carried in the rebuilt pages, in the grid below, the alphabet bar and the navigation. Both of these originals were fetched live directly for this rebuild. One brand, one letter: Yves Saint Laurent, founded in 1961 and still the directory's defining luxury name under Y, is the complete Y section of the Women's Fashion Brands directory, and this hub keeps the original's order and honesty for it.