Maison 7 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Saint Laurent
The reading
The quiet counterweight inside Kering. First-time No.1 in the Lyst Index in Q3 2025, and No.1 again in Q4 2025. Anthony Vaccarello’s Le Loafer and a tightly edited leather offering have made YSL the group’s most reliable fashion profit pool while Gucci rebuilds.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1961
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Kering
- Signature
- Loulou / Le Loafer
The figure, and where it comes from
Kering FY2025: €2.64bn revenue at a 20.0% recurring operating margin.
Source: Kering, FY2025 results, 10 February 2026.
This claim was re-checked against the publisher named above on 2026-09-23, and it is held in this build’s claims ledger as ysl-fy25.
How the register places it
By founding year it is the 68th-oldest of the hundred. It is one of twenty-six maisons filed here from France, the largest national group in the register. Kering holds five of the hundred, this one among them: Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and Boucheron. Fashion & Couture holds twenty-five houses here, and this is the 7th of them.