founded 1997 founder jonny johansson headquarters stockholm sweden key people jonny johansson creative director mikael schiller executive chairman mattias magnusson ceo website www.acnestudios.com acne studios is a multidisciplinary luxury fashion house based in stockholm sweden with own brand retail stores in locations around the world . 1 it was founded in 1996 as part of the creative collective acne . 2 the fashion house offers men s and women s ready to wear fashion footwear accessories and denim as well as special artistic collaborations and one off projects . 3 4 5 contents 1 background 2 products 3 acne paper 4 stores 5 collaborations 6 references 7 external links background edit acne studios was founded in 1996 in stockholm sweden as part of the creative collective acne that focused on graphic design film production and advertising . 6 the name acne stands for ambition to create novel expressions . in 1997 cofounder jonny johansson created one hundred pairs of raw denim jeans with red stitching and gave them away to friends and family . wallpaper and vogue paris quickly picked up on the popularity of the jeans and acne studios rapidly expanded their fashion offering outside of denim . in 2006 acne studios became a standalone company and separated from acne film acne advertising and acne digital at the same time launching their ecommerce website acnestudios.com . since launch acne studios has grown into a global fashion house with retail stores around the world including paris london new york los angeles antwerp and tokyo offering women s and men s ready to wear collections showing at paris fashion week twice a year and turning over 120 million annually in 2013 . 7 products edit acne studios design men s and women s ready to wear fashion footwear accessories and denim . the main women s spring summer and fall winter collections are presented twice a year at paris fashion week . the women s resort and pre fall collections are presented in new york and men s main collections are presented twice a year in paris . according to the acne studios environmental strategy the company wants to produce wares that are high quality and that has long life . their goal in 2012 was to increase the amount of environmentally preferable materials and adds that their goal for 2014 is that 20 percent of all fabrics used in their never out of stock products should be made of organic cotton or some similar environmentally stable material . acne paper edit acne studios avoids traditional forms of marketing and advertising choosing instead to publish a biannual magazine called acne paper . 8 9 acne paper covers the disciplines of art fashion photography design architecture academia and culture . each issue is based around a theme that is interpreted by selected contributors from their field of expertise . contributors to acne paper have included carine roitfeld noam chomsky david lynch lord snowdon azzedine ala a mario testino sarah moon tilda swinton and paolo roversi . stores edit acne studios has own brand stores in locations around the world including stockholm copenhagen berlin new york los angeles melbourne sydney antwerp london paris oslo hong kong and tokyo . 10 acne studios stockholm flagship store on norrmalmstorg was the location of the 1973 bank robbery and subsequent hostage situation that gave rise to the term stockholm syndrome for the psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors . collaborations edit acne studios has collaborated widely with representatives from the creative industries to produce limited edition collections . 11 some examples include a range of bikes with the world s oldest bike manufacturer bianchi bicycles 12 a furniture line of sofas based on swedish designer carl malmsten s sofa nya berlin 13 14 a capsule collection with couture house lanvin 15 an art installation and a collection with artist katerina jebb 16 a cross gender blouse collection with transsexual magazine candy 11 an art book and blue shirt line with lord snowdon 17 limited edition prints with william wegman 18 a rodeo themed book and capsule collection inspired by bruce of los angeles 19 a collection based around artworks by abstract swedish pioneer hilma af klint 20 and a capsule collection with liberty london . 21 references edit www.acnestudios.com . jonny johansson . stockholm label acne wants to be known for more than jeans . the new york times . 15 october 2009 . marcus j. s. sweden s conceptual fashion . acne a clear winner . 18 february 2008 . marcus j. s. 26 february 2010 . sweden s conceptual fashion via wall street journal . times los angeles . acne studios opens 5 000 square foot store in downtown l.a. . greene lucie 8 january 2010 . the boom in branded magazines via financial times . paper dreams the latest issue of acne s magazine . 31 july 2011 . www.acnestudios.com . a b yaeger lynn 15 march 2013 . how to succeed in fashion without trying too hard via wall street journal . magazine wallpaper 15 january 2009 . acne bianchi bicycle fashion wallpaper magazine . events the london design festival . acne launches furniture range . 26 january 2010 . barnett leisa . an outbreak of acne . acne 13 objects documented by katerina jebb modeconnect . 15 april 2013 . an oldie but a goodie . acne studios magnificent snowdon blue . 7 january 2013 . william wegman shoots amazing acne studios spring summer 2013 dog campaign . 13 march 2013 . acne studios celebrates the rodeo in a second photography book . 17 may 2013 . english vogue . acne studios celebrates hilma af klint . acne studios x liberty london . 14 february 2014 . external links edit official website acne group official site acne studios environmental strategy retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title acne studios & oldid 740117067 categories clothing brandsclothing brands of swedenclothing brands of stockholmclothing companies of swedenswedish 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