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Acne Studios
Acne Studios is the Stockholm fashion house co-founded in 1996 by Jonny Johansson, who remains Creative Director. It developed from the wider ACNE creative collective and works across ready-to-wear, denim, footwear, accessories, publications, furniture, books, exhibitions and artistic collaborations. Johansson’s interests in photography, art, architecture and contemporary culture inform a house language that pairs experimentation with a recognisable Scandinavian clarity. Mattias Magnusson is Chief Executive Officer. The directory records that creative and executive division directly, and treats Acne Studios as an independent company rather than inferring a parent-group financial context. Its cultural projects and collaborations are useful evidence of the brand’s practice, but are kept separate from unverified claims about ownership, revenue or business valuation.
- Country
- Sweden
- Founded
- 1996
- Founder
- Jonny Johansson
- Creative lead
- Jonny Johansson
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Documented milestones
- 4
- Jonny Johansson — Co-Founder1996–Present · house · current · Acne Studios
- Jonny Johansson — Creative Director1996–Present · house · current · Acne Studios
- Mattias Magnusson — Chief Executive Officer2011–Present · house · current · Stockholm School of Economics
- 1996 — Creative collective foundedACNE begins in Stockholm across design, film, production and advertising.
- 2006 — Standalone fashion companyAcne Studios separates into a standalone fashion company.
- 2021 — Global operating scale documentedThe company reports 66 stores and more than 800 employees for FY2021.
- 2022 — Fashion-show circularity programThe house begins using FHCM's event eco-design tool.