Acne opened its second Paris store Tuesday on rue Froissart in the 3rd arrondissement, but founder Jonny Johansson remained in a Swedish, not Gallic, mood. “I wanted to do something with a contemporary Stockholm vibe, because that’s where we’re from and it’s been on my mind a lot lately,” he said about the new shop. [...]

It’s time to dust off your jean jacket. Favored by the likes of Ruby Aldridge, Liu Wen, and Hanne Gaby Odiele, the denim staple is making a bid to replace the leather bomber as model-off-duty topper of choice. This summer, bona fide celebs (Cameron Diaz) and burgeoning trendsetters (Pippa Middleton) alike have been spotted layering [...]

If you hadn’t heard of Candy magazine, Luis Venegas’ salute to “transversal” style, its recent cover with James Franco in full drag likely put it on your radar. For that one, Venegas admitted, “I have to give all the credit to Terry Richardson and his team.” But Venegas’ other collaborators are no less distinguished: Bruce [...]

Hot on the heels of its big July store opening on Dover Street, Acne is doing its first true runway show in London on September 19. The venue is an apartment at Kensington Palace that is the former residence of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon; the brand’s creative director, Jonny Johansson, discovered it while scouting [...]

At his new four-story space in Mayfair’s “Wobo” (that’s West of Bond Street), Acne’s Jonny Johansson tells Style.com why he chose upscale Mayfair rather than edgy Shoreditch for his first retail shop in London: “Space has always been more important than location. We looked at so many places and knew this was the right one [...]

Last night in Paris, Acne presented its Spring ‘11 menswear, a collection inspired by creative director Jonny Johansson’s fond memories of disco-blasting school dances. (”In my teens, I would travel to these summer dances in remote halls in the Swedish countryside,” he recalls in the show’s notes, ” ’cause that’s what you do.”) The collection [...]

There isn’t a fashion watcher on earth who isn’t dying to know what the news for Spring’s going to be—and the action’s already started in London at Acne’s presentation. Even from halfway across the room and through a thicket of models standing in formation, it was easy to zero in on the newest idea: two [...]