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Saint Laurent Raffia Bag

Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag
Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag

Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Yves Saint Laurent (Made in France) Shoulder bag in multi-color raffia and blue canvas, with three patch pockets.

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1970s French Structured Shoulder Bags

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Saint Laurent Monogram Raffia Kate Shoulder Bag Medium
Saint Laurent Monogram Raffia Kate Shoulder Bag Medium

Saint Laurent Monogram Raffia Kate Shoulder Bag Medium

By Saint Laurent

Located in Montreal, Quebec

SAINT LAURENT MONOGRAM RAFFIA KATE SHOULDER BAG MEDIUM Color: black with gunmetal hardware Material: raffia Style No. 555069 Comes with: dust bag Condition: Very good.

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Medium Raffia Tote Bag Blue
Saint Laurent Medium Raffia Tote Bag Blue

Saint Laurent Medium Raffia Tote Bag Blue

By Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Color: Blue Material: Raffia Model No. 688864 Comes with: Dust bag Condition: New Made in Italy Measurements~ Height 14” Width 18.75” Depth 6.25” Drop 6” Outlet.

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tote Bags

Saint Laurent Raffia Pannier Blue Tote Bag
Saint Laurent Raffia Pannier Blue Tote Bag

Saint Laurent Raffia Pannier Blue Tote Bag

By Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello

Located in Montreal, Quebec

This tote is made of blue woven straw, with brown leather handles. The top is open to a spacious matching woven straw interior. Outlet. Color: blue Material: raffia Model No. 688221...

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tote Bags

SAINT LAURENT beige raffia MEDIUM NIKI Shoulder Bag
SAINT LAURENT beige raffia MEDIUM NIKI Shoulder Bag

SAINT LAURENT beige raffia MEDIUM NIKI Shoulder Bag

By Saint Laurent

Located in Zürich, CH

100% authentic Saint Laurent Medium Niki shoulder bag in beige woven raffia with espresso brown leather trim and YSL logo on the flap.

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SAINT LAURENT black LOU CAMERA Shoulder Bag RAFFIA & VINTAGE LEATHER
SAINT LAURENT black LOU CAMERA Shoulder Bag RAFFIA & VINTAGE LEATHER

SAINT LAURENT black LOU CAMERA Shoulder Bag RAFFIA & VINTAGE LEATHER

By Saint Laurent

Located in Zürich, CH

Saint Laurent Lou camera bag in ivory raffia and black calfskin featuring antique gold-tone hardware.

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Structured Shoulder Bags

SAINT LAURENT beige RAFFIA YSL SMALL BASKET TOTE Shoulder Bag
SAINT LAURENT beige RAFFIA YSL SMALL BASKET TOTE Shoulder Bag

SAINT LAURENT beige RAFFIA YSL SMALL BASKET TOTE Shoulder Bag

By Saint Laurent

Located in Zürich, CH

100% authentic Saint Laurent YSL small basket tote bag in beige cutout raffia and brown calf leather flat top handles.

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2010s Italian Structured Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case
Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case

Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case

By Saint Laurent

Located in London, GB

We Adore - Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case Currect season Spring-Summer 2026 - Beige, large tote hand-crocheted from natural raffia and...

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21st Century and Contemporary Tote Bags

Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case
Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case

Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case

By Saint Laurent

Located in London, GB

We Adore - Saint Laurent Icare Maxi Raffia Shopping Bag With A Removable Sunglasses Case Currect season Spring-Summer 2026 - Beige, large tote hand-crocheted from natural raffia and...

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Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag
Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag

Yves Saint Laurent Multi-Color Raffia and Blue Canvas Bag

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Yves Saint Laurent (Made in France) Shoulder bag in multi-color raffia and blue canvas, with three patch pockets.

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1970s French Structured Shoulder Bags

Yves Saint Laurent Straw Bag with Raffia Tassels
Yves Saint Laurent Straw Bag with Raffia Tassels

Yves Saint Laurent Straw Bag with Raffia Tassels

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in New Hope, PA

A chic black bag is covered with woven straw and accented by five glossy black raffia tassels. The bag has a snap closure and a zippered pocket inside. The cord strap can be tucked i...

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Late 20th Century French Handbags and Purses

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 22-25" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia, Leather Ext...

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Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Light scuffs on leather trims, creasing on strap, minor wear in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, Tassel Measurements: Height 6.5", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Crossbody Bags and Messenger Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6.5", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 21-24" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia Ex...

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21st Century and Contemporary Crossbody Bags and Messenger Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6.5", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 21-24" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia Ex...

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21st Century and Contemporary Crossbody Bags and Messenger Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6.5", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 21-24" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Printed Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia Ex...

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21st Century and Contemporary Crossbody Bags and Messenger Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 23-26" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia, Leath...

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Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Small marks on base, wear and marks in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, Tassel Measurements: Height 6", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 22-25" Designer: Saint...

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21st Century and Contemporary Crossbody Bags and Messenger Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Tassel Measurements: Height 6", Width 9", Depth 2.5", Strap Drop 23-26" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small Exterior Material: Raffia Exteri...

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21st Century and Contemporary Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Black Woven Raffia and Leather Basket Bag
Saint Laurent Black Woven Raffia and Leather Basket Bag

Saint Laurent Black Woven Raffia and Leather Basket Bag

By Saint Laurent

Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2

Crafted by Saint Laurent, this exquisite basket bag epitomizes elegance and craftsmanship.

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Saint Laurent Mica Shoulder Bag Raffia and Leather Small
Saint Laurent Mica Shoulder Bag Raffia and Leather Small

Saint Laurent Mica Shoulder Bag Raffia and Leather Small

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: No Accessories Measurements: Height 5", Width 7", Depth 3", Strap Drop 22-26" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Mica Shoulder Bag Raffia and Leather Small Exterior Material...

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Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium
Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium

Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: No Accessories Measurements: Handle Drop 10-11.5", Height 7", Width 9.5", Depth 3", Strap Drop -" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium
Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium

Saint Laurent Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: No Accessories Measurements: Handle Drop 10-11.5", Height 7", Width 9.5", Depth 3", Strap Drop -" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Chyc Flap Bag Raffia and Leather Medium ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Structured Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small
Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

This Saint Laurent Lou Camera Bag Woven Raffia Small, crafted from beige woven raffia, features a commanding YSL monogram logo at the front, a long leather strap, and aged bronze-ton...

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21st Century and Contemporary Tech Accessories and Cases

Saint Laurent Kate 99 Tassel Flap Bag Woven Raffia Medium
Saint Laurent Kate 99 Tassel Flap Bag Woven Raffia Medium

Saint Laurent Kate 99 Tassel Flap Bag Woven Raffia Medium

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Accessories: Chain Strap, Dust Bag, Box, With Strap Measurements: Handle Drop 8.5", Height 5", Width 10", Depth 2" Designer: Saint Laurent Model: Kate 99 Tassel Flap Bag Woven Raffia...

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Saint Laurent Paisley LouLou Shoulder Bag Printed Fabric with Raffia Medium
Saint Laurent Paisley LouLou Shoulder Bag Printed Fabric with Raffia Medium

Saint Laurent Paisley LouLou Shoulder Bag Printed Fabric with Raffia Medium

By Saint Laurent

Located in NY, NY

Creasing on exterior and underneath flap, bubbling underneath flap, light wear in interior, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag Measurements: Handle Drop 10", Height 9", Wid...

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21st Century and Contemporary Hobo Bags

Saint Laurent Beige/Tan Raffia and Leather Small Mica Crossbody Bag
Saint Laurent Beige/Tan Raffia and Leather Small Mica Crossbody Bag

Saint Laurent Beige/Tan Raffia and Leather Small Mica Crossbody Bag

By Saint Laurent

Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2

Express your personal style with this high-end crossbody bag. Crafted from quality materials, it has been added with fine details and is finished perfectly. It features a well-sized ...

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2010s Italian Shoulder Bags

Saint Laurent Raffia Suede Calfskin Grace Fringed Tan Hobo Bag
Saint Laurent Raffia Suede Calfskin Grace Fringed Tan Hobo Bag

Saint Laurent Raffia Suede Calfskin Grace Fringed Tan Hobo Bag

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Freehold, NJ

Saint Laurent Raffia Suede Calfskin Grace Fringed Tan Hobo Bag Discover the perfect blend of style and functionality with the Saint Laurent Raffia Suede Calfskin Grace Fringed Tan H...

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Saint Laurent Raffia Monogram Lou Camera Bag Beige
Saint Laurent Raffia Monogram Lou Camera Bag Beige

Saint Laurent Raffia Monogram Lou Camera Bag Beige

By Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent

Located in Montreal, Quebec

This shoulder bag is made of raffia in beige with black leather trim and details. The bag features an adjustable crossbody strap and brass hardware. The top zipper opens to a compact...

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Shoulder Bags

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Located in West Hollywood, CA

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French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture.

Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, Saint Laurent also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear. By blurring gender-specific design, he empowered individual style while creating a scissor-sharp fashion aesthetic of sensual ease and beauty. Many of his designs are today considered timeless classics. Saint Laurent also consistently used Black models, like Mounia, Iman and Naomi Campbell, and he drew endless inspiration from different ethnicities and cultures, in no small part because of his Algerian roots.

Born to French parents in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, Saint Laurent went to Paris at age 17 to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Just two years later, in 1955, his remarkable sketches were shown to Christian Dior, then the world’s reigning couturier, who hired him immediately.

Surprisingly soon thereafter, Dior publicly chose Saint Laurent as his successor, which sadly proved prescient when the fashion legend died unexpectedly, in 1957. A mere slip of a youth, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent was nevertheless up to the challenge. He shook the traditional couture clientele to its core with youthful silhouettes and styles like the A-line trapeze dress that hung with seeming effortlessness from the shoulders, the antithesis of the pinched waists and molded skirts that had been all the rage after the deprivations of World War II.

After a mandated spell in the torturous French military, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous breakdown and was dismissed by Dior in 1962. Out of the ashes rose the Age of Yves. With Pierre Bergé, his then-lover who became his lifelong business partner and friend, the designer founded Yves Saint Laurent YSL to encompass prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear. In 1966, they opened the first YSL Rive Gauche women’s boutique in Paris, followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. Saint Laurent had given birth to a global brand.

His revolutionary Mondrian mini dress from 1965 is a core element of his fashion biography. It is a prime example of how Saint Laurent, an avid art lover and collector, looked to painters, from Goya to Picasso, Ingres to Matisse, for inspiration.

With its pure lines and hues, Mondrian’s ground-breaking 1935 color-block painting Composition C transmutes beautifully into a dress that is highly valued by collectors of contemporary fashion and widely copied commercially to this day. The design is the epitome of Saint Laurent’s aesthetic, requiring a meticulous hand piecing of each color block so that, despite the body’s curves, the visual plane is as flat as a canvas when the garment is worn. Mondrian’s purity met its match in Saint Laurent.

“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style,” Saint Laurent said four years before retiring, in 2002. After a long period of ill health, he died at his home in Paris on June 1, 2008. Under creative director Hedi Slimane, the house’s ready-to-wear collection was rebranded as Saint Laurent in 2012.

Browse an extraordinary collection of vintage Saint Laurent evening dresses, shirts, handbags and other clothing and accessories today on 1stDibs.

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An integral part of fashion, handbags and purses have been indispensable accessories ever since we began to carry around personal items. Level of craftsmanship, style and shape matters — from coin purses in ancient Greece to early 20th-century opera bags and onward, handbags have evolved considerably over the years to meet our needs and desires, whether or not you happen to be prioritizing functionality over a flashy exterior.

Once, a single “It” handbag ruled each fashion season. No more. Today, lovers of vintage handbags are savvier and have a wider range of shopping options. Nevertheless, classics created by the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior and Balenciaga still rule.

“It is not a fashion bag — it is a statement bag,” says Mightychic's Debra Kent of Hermès's widely beloved accessories. “When you carry an iconic Hermès bagBirkin, Kelly, Constance — no one knows how long you have been into this culture or if you are a newbie. Your status is validated immediately.”

First released in 1997, Fendi's Baguette rose to fame along with Carrie Bradshaw, the Sex and the City character portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. Recently, the design has seen such a resurgence in popularity that Fendi has reissued it.

They are part of design history, so owning a handbag has meaning. As New York–based fashion historian Sarah C. Byrd says, “You have made the choice to invest in this piece because you understand the value of it in the past and in the future to come.”

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