Acne Studios
Luxury Swedish fashion house Acne Studios was founded in 1996 in Stockholm. Founded by creative director Jonny Johansson, Acne Studios was once part of the wider ACNE creative collective: an acronym for ‘Ambition to Create Novel Expressions’.

LVMH’s 24S Launches Menswear
The conglomerate’s multi-brand e-commerce platform will be the exclusive online retailer for Dior Men and Hedi Slimane’s new men's collection for Celine.
Acne’s School Ties
This was one of Acne's freshest collections in recent memory: a bit messy in the styling at some points but nonetheless focused and filled with meaningful, if not properly commercial, pieces.
How Klarna Keeps Its Culture Young and Hungry
BoF sits down with Sebastian Siemiatkowski to hear how he created a company culture that drove his start-up to reach a valuation of $3.5 billion in 15 years.
Chinese Investors Woo European Brands. It’s Complicated.
Chinese backers have snapped up distressed European fashion labels hoping to tap the country’s millions of heritage-hungry millennials. But things haven’t always gone to plan.
Roberto Cavalli: What Went Wrong?
This week, one of Italy’s most famous fashion houses hit a dead end.
FYI Brand Group Launches Fashion and Pop Culture Division
The brand strategy agency that links rap stars Travis Scott and DJ Khaled with luxury fashion houses from Dior to Saint Laurent, is launching a dedicated fashion division.
A New Formality and Its Opposite
Fumito Ganryu twisted fashion’s new formality in a progressive direction, while Acne Studios mounted a counter-current and Ami stuck to bourgeois nonchalance, reports Angelo Flaccavento.
It's Time To Pull The Plug on (Some) Men's Fashion Weeks
Dedicated men's fashion weeks in New York and London no longer hold the value that they once did. It's time to change with the market.
What Calvin Klein Should Do Next
PVH Corp. made a big bet that it could ‘do a Gucci’ with its flagship brand. But after the failure of its radical Raf Simons experiment, the company may need to rethink its strategy.
Acne Studios Takes Minority Investment
IDG Capital and Hong Kong-based I.T Group have acquired stakes of 30.1 percent and 10.9 percent of the company.