Saint Laurent · Tier 3

Loulou

Name: Saint Laurent Loulou Medium
Brand: Saint Laurent

Catalogued July 2026

The Saint Laurent Loulou is a soft quilted shoulder bag introduced by Anthony Vaccarello in 2017, as part of his spring/summer 2018 collection, and named after Yves Saint Laurent's muse Loulou de la Falaise. It is defined by the oversized Y-quilting on supple leather and the large metal YSL Cassandre monogram on the front flap, hung from a chain-and-leather strap. The puckered chevron stitching gives it a plush, pillowy look. It became one of the house's most recognizable modern bags.

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Size

Mini SmallMediumLarge Toy Unknown

Colour

BlackWhite Beige Grey Red Blue Green Unknown

Material

LeatherSuede Matelasse Calfskin Matelasse Lambskin Unknown

Hardware

goldsilver Unknown

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Made in

What the house has produced this bag in, from our sourced records.

Material

Matelasse Lambskindefault, Matelasse Calfskin

Seasonal: Suede, Puffer, Croc-Embossed / Exotic

Hardware

Golddefault, Silver

Seasonal: Aged / Brushed

Permanent finishes are offered year-round; seasonal ones rotate and retire. A finish being listed here doesn’t mean we have one for sale right now.

The black shades we’ve recorded (4)

Rouge16Nude4Brown2Taupe1

Shades recorded from resale listings, in the sellers’ own words. Chanel doesn’t publish official seasonal colour names, so treat these as descriptions, not house names.

The Saint Laurent Loulou Medium in Black is a Leather bag.

What it's worth

Saint Laurent · Loulou · Medium · Black

This exact variant · 1000 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $850 on Rebag, well below the typical price (median $1,945).

Prices have been trending up over the tracked window.

No longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.

By condition · compared like-for-like

excellent

27 prices

very good

36 prices

good

1 price

$895$2,550

By production era · decade

2010s

2 prices

2020s

7 prices

$986$1,795

Resale by production era: 9 listings, estimated from recorded prices.

Estimated from recorded resale prices (936 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-10-03.

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Where it stands

#130

of 582 styles in the LC Index

Down 16 this month

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⚖Blended from price, trade volume, and scarcity.
◷Recomputed monthly from recorded market prices.

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The three measures behind #130

By priceof 582 styles

#251Manhattan · Saint Laurent
#252Loulou · Saint Laurent
#253City · Balenciaga

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SHouseSaint Laurentest. 1961 · France LeatherLeather Hardwaregold ColourBlack

The Story

Named for the muse who shaped Yves Saint Laurent, with quilting that traces a Y.

Origin

Named for a muse

Saint Laurent introduced the Loulou in 2017 under Anthony Vaccarello, naming it for Loulou de la Falaise, the designer and confidante who was one of Yves Saint Laurent's closest muses for decades.

SourcesLuxfy Handbagholic

Design

Quilting shaped like a Y

The bag's chevron quilting is stitched to echo the letter Y, a quiet tribute to Yves Saint Laurent himself.

SourcesFashionphile

Guides for this bag

Articles on the Loulou and Saint Laurent from our verified experts.

Saint Laurent authentication: The markers worth checking
The 2012 rebrand from Yves Saint Laurent to Saint Laurent Paris is the master dating tell, plus the Cassandre hardware, embossed serial, and Loulou quilting that catch most fakes. Why the name has to match the age.
By Arielle · Loulou

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