Collège
Chevron-quilted lamb leather, a top handle, and a chain — a 1970s student satchel reimagined for the house.
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Story & heritage
The Collège takes its name and its shape from the satchels carried by students in the 1970s — the decade in which Yves Saint Laurent was at the height of his cultural influence. The Monogramme Collège line is a tribute to that era: a flap shoulder bag with a small top handle, decorated with chevron-quilted overstitching and the metal YSL Cassandre initials at the centre of the flap.
Reissued and kept in the line under Anthony Vaccarello, the Collège sits between the structured Sac de Jour and the soft Loulou — quilted like the house's evening bags, but built with a top handle and a removable chain that let it cross over from day to night.
Materials & craft
The Collège is crafted in Italy from chevron-quilted lamb or calf leather, the overstitching running in the inverted-V that frames the monogram. A short rolled leather top handle is fixed to the flap; a removable chain-and-leather strap drops it to the shoulder or crossbody. The Cassandre monogram is cast in metal — aged silver or gold-tone — and the envelope flap closes over a leather-lined interior. Crackled and shiny leathers give the quilting different depths of shine.
How to choose & style
The Medium is the everyday Collège — carried by the top handle for a polished daytime look, or dropped onto the chain for the evening. Black with silver hardware reads modern and graphic; gold hardware and brown crackled leather lean into the bag's vintage, 1970s register. The quilting gives it texture against plain tailoring, and the top handle keeps it from feeling purely an evening piece.
