Carven Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear

Yesterday, Carven announced Mark Thomas as its new director of design. While the timing in the middle of Paris Fashion Week may seem unexpected, Saturdays have been the brand’s typical calendar spot since Louise Trotter arrived as creative director in 2023, and Thomas has been her senior designer all along. Given his previous roles at Joseph and Lacoste, where he also worked alongside Trotter as the head designer of menswear, and as creative director at Helmut Lang (2017-19)—and simply because he is well respected across an inner circle of the industry—people were often congratulating him after the Carven shows, as though recognizing them as a work couple. In the wake of Trotter’s departure to Bottega Veneta following Matthieu Blazy’s appointment at Chanel, Thomas naturally and deservedly assuming Carven’s design lead is now official—and comes with the reveal of this fall collection and lookbook, which provide glimmers of both his smooth transition and shifting vision.