Carven Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear

What a difference a change of scene can make. Today, Mark Thomas’s excellent sophomore show was also an outing, as we relocated to the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers from the brand’s headquarters on the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, the same building where founder Marie-Louise Carven once lived and made her studio. Sunlight streamed into what was once the conservatory’s vast textile room—the walls boasting an enviable patina—as the models walked straight up and down a runway rather than the smaller configuration of rooms that we had become used to at the label’s base. “Home was great…” Thomas had said in a preview. “And then you leave home, you grow up.”