Carven Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear

From its revival in 2009 until 2018, Carven had been overseen by a series of male creative directors—each bringing a charismatic vision to a Paris fashion house that was founded and designed by a woman, Marie Louise Carven (born Carmen de Tommaso) in 1945. Today, Louise Trotter made her runway debut, the first woman to lead in Carven’s contemporary era. Just a dozen or so looks into the show, she had not only accomplished a total reset, it was clear she’s also discovered how to make Carven stand out. It goes something like this: Dressed up yet pared back, a Parisian woman from the ’50s exposed to ’90s minimalism. “I wanted to take the approach of less is more, really focus on what I wanted to say, and to create the silhouette and the woman,” Trotter said after the show, her two young daughters milling about nearby.