Introduction
Dominique Morlotti was a fashion designer who held two parallel Lanvin remits on different calendars. He directed women’s ready-to-wear from 1992 to 1995 and menswear from 1992 until the 2001 transition.
His appointment followed the end of Lanvin’s couture programme and therefore belongs to ready-to-wear and menswear rather than haute couture. Women’s authority passed to Ocimar Versolato in 1995, while Morlotti continued men’s collections until a departure announced in November 2000 and a final delivery tail in 2001.
Design ethos
Morlotti’s Lanvin work has to be read category by category. Women’s and men’s collections shared an institutional author but developed through separate show calendars, production systems and end dates.
The surviving record supports a controlled ready-to-wear vocabulary rather than a single house manifesto. Tailoring and commercial wardrobe structure mattered more than the couture spectacle that had just ended.
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