Introduction
Patrick Lavoix was a menswear designer documented at Lanvin from 1976 before moving to Dior Monsieur in 1992. His tenure belongs to the men’s business and does not follow the sequence of women’s couture designers.
The available evidence establishes long service and category authority but not a complete collection programme, exact title or final season. His record is therefore best framed around the verified menswear relationship rather than an inflated house-wide directorship.
Design ethos
Lavoix worked within a commercial tailoring system whose surviving documentation is thinner than Lanvin couture. The central concern was a complete men’s wardrobe shaped through cut, fabric and market continuity.
Because exact collections and internal credits remain incomplete, the design record should stay close to documented menswear output and avoid assigning later Lanvin Homme codes retrospectively.
Disclaimer
Career history
1992
Patrick Lavoix’s long Lanvin menswear tenure ended around 1991–1992 before he moved to Dior Monsieur. The exact final collection remains unresolved, so the departure is kept approximate and separate from women’s couture and ready-to-wear succession.
1976
Patrick Lavoix is documented in Lanvin menswear from 1976 and left for Dior Monsieur by 1992. The long relationship is secure, though his exact title and first and final collection seasons remain unresolved.
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