Yves Saint Laurent Women's Fashion Brand

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. The house is known to most shoppers simply as Saint Laurent.

That short-name point matters for anyone researching the brand. The same house appears in this directory twice - here under Y for Yves Saint Laurent, the founder's full name, and under S for Saint Laurent, the name the house trades under - and the companion Saint Laurent Women's profile covers the house under its short name.

1961: The Founder and His Eponymous Label

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label - the label he named after himself. More about the designer is in the Yves Saint Laurent designer record elsewhere on Apparel Search.

He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century, and he was an influential European fashion designer who impacted fashion from the 1960s to the present day.

Haute Couture Revived in 2015, and a New Creative Director in 2016

The company revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under former creative director Hedi Slimane. A revival is a specific kind of fashion-house event: a couture collection brought back after an absence. Slimane held the creative director role at the time of the revival and has since left it.

In April 2016, Anthony Vaccarello was appointed as the creative director. Read together, the two dated entries give the house's modern timeline: couture revived in 2015 under Slimane, then a new creative director appointed in April 2016. For the house's current leadership, follow the official site in this page's References.

Luxury Handbags, Ready to Wear, Shoes, Leather Goods and Accessories

Visit a Saint Laurent store for a wide range of luxury handbags, ready to wear, shoes, leather goods and accessories - five product families that define the women's offer: handbags, ready-to-wear clothing, shoes, leather goods and accessories, all in the luxury register.

As a buying guide, judge a piece from this house on the terms luxury itself sets: the quality of the leather and materials, the finish of the construction, and whether a handbag, shoe or ready-to-wear garment earns a long place in a wardrobe rather than a single season. The house is, in plain classification, a luxury fashion designer brand: Yves Saint Laurent, the French luxury fashion house founded by the designer and Pierre Bergé, its label founded in 1961, its couture revived in 2015, and its creative direction handed to Anthony Vaccarello in April 2016.

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