Saint Laurent · Tier 3

Lou Camera

Name: Saint Laurent Lou Camera
Brand: Saint Laurent

Catalogued June 2026

The Lou is Saint Laurent's compact camera bag, a slim quilted crossbody with a boxy shape, a zip top, and the metal Cassandre YSL logo on the front. Worn on a long adjustable strap, it is one of the house's most accessible everyday leather bags under Anthony Vaccarello. Our sourcing on its exact debut year is thin, so we leave it unset rather than guess. Do not confuse it with the larger chain-strap LouLou, which is a separate model.

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Material

Matelasse Quilted SuedeUnknown

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Made in

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Material

Matelasse Quilteddefault, Smooth Calf

Seasonal: Suede, Exotic / Embellished

Hardware

Golddefault, Silver

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.

What it's worth

Saint Laurent · Lou Camera · Black

This exact variant · 493 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $315 on The RealReal, well below the typical price (median $1,450).

Demand is light and prices are soft, so there's little pressure to move fast.

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

By condition · compared like-for-like

very good

13 prices

good

1 price

$695$1,495

Estimated from recorded resale prices (479 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-07-26.

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Where it stands

#238

of 512 styles in the LC Index

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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 #238

By priceof 512 styles

#291The Pouch · Bottega Veneta
#292Lou Camera · Saint Laurent
#293Ribera · Louis Vuitton

By trade volumeof 512 styles

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SHouseSaint Laurentest. 1961 · France ColourBlack

Guides for this bag

Articles on the Lou Camera 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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