Saint Laurent Appoints Anouck Duranteau-Loeper as Deputy CEO
The Kering-owned house announced on Thursday that it has tapped the executive as its first deputy chief executive officer.
Reported by Vogue.
Saint Laurent just made a move that signals something bigger than a single hire. Anouck Duranteau-Loeper has been named the house's first-ever deputy CEO, stepping into a newly created role that puts her at the center of the brand's next growth phase. She joins July 1, reporting directly to CEO Cédric Charbit, according to Vogue.
Duranteau-Loeper comes from nearly a decade at the helm of Isabel Marant, where she didn't just manage a brand — she rebuilt one. Under her leadership, the house expanded its accessories business, relaunched menswear, repositioned the Marant Étoile diffusion line, and pushed into new physical markets. In 2021, she was elected president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Féminine, France's governing body for women's fashion — not exactly a footnote. Moving to Saint Laurent is an obvious escalation in scale, and the industry is watching.
What the Role Actually Means
The deputy CEO title is new for Saint Laurent, and its scope is specific: Duranteau-Loeper will own product end-to-end — studio oversight, collection development, merchandising — working in close alignment with creative director Anthony Vaccarello. The goal, per Charbit, is to sharpen product strategy and strengthen global demand. Translation: this is a commercial sharpening exercise for a house that already showed year-on-year growth in Q1 2026, even as parent company Kering stopped breaking out individual brand earnings.
Charbit has been steering Saint Laurent since 2024, and the creation of this role reflects a deliberate restructuring — not a reaction, but a build. Bringing in an executive with Duranteau-Loeper's profile, someone fluent in both creative positioning and operational execution, suggests the house is thinking seriously about what the next era of luxury growth actually requires. It's not just vision. It's infrastructure.
When a storied Parisian house invents a new seat at the table and fills it with someone of this caliber, the message is clear: Saint Laurent is playing a longer game.
Read the original at Vogue.
