Jil Sander is owned by OTB Group (Italy), which acquired the brand in 2021 from Onward Holdings.[1][2][3][4] Before OTB Group, Jil Sander was owned by Onward Holdings from 2008 to 2021.[4]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Brands – OTB Group, OTB S.p.A. Last checked .
Jil Sander is a byword for minimalism, and its founder left and returned to her own house three separate times amid disputes with successive owners. OTB acquired it in 2021 from a Japanese group. Its founder returned to the house twice after selling it and left each time over disagreements with the owners, an unusually public sequence for a designer.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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OTB Group controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
The 40 brands in luxury fashion & leather goods on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is LVMH, with 8; OTB Group has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Berluti | LVMH | 🇫🇷 France |
| Alexander McQueen | Kering | 🇫🇷 France |
| Alaïa | Richemont | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Burberry | Burberry | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Miu Miu | Prada Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Thom Browne | Zegna | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Giorgio Armani | Armani | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Versace | Capri Holdings | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
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OTB Group is a privately held company headquartered in Breganze, Italy, founded in 2002. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control.
OTB stands for Only The Brave and is the private holding company of Renzo Rosso, who founded Diesel. It bought several houses that larger groups passed over and is the fourth significant Italian luxury owner after LVMH, Kering and Prada.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 252 brands that began in Germany. 93 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Jil Sander among them.
OTB bought Jil Sander from the Japanese group Onward Holdings in 2021, adding a minimalist German house to a portfolio built around Diesel and Maison Margiela. Neither side disclosed a price. OTB reported the following February that Jil Sander had reached break-even nine months after joining the group. Only the year is recorded here.
The parent company of Jil Sander is OTB Group, a privately held company headquartered in Italy.
Jil Sander originated in Germany in 1968, but it is owned today by OTB Group, which is headquartered in Italy. So Jil Sander is a German-origin brand under Italian ownership.
OTB Group completed its acquisition of Jil Sander in 2021. The price was not disclosed.
Before OTB Group, Jil Sander was owned by Onward Holdings from 2008 until 2021.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Jil Sander is still owned by OTB Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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