Acne Studios has released Issue 21 of Acne Paper, the brand’s revered print publication, timed to coincide with its thirtieth anniversary and Paris Men’s Fashion Week. The issue, titled ‘Autoportrait,’ functions as a self-portrait of the Swedish house — a document of where it has been and where it is heading, assembled by creative director Jonny Johansson.
The publication, available at Acne Studios stores and select bookshops globally, also introduces a new design system by the studio’s in-house creative team. Typography, paper stock, and binding have been refreshed without sacrificing the art-journal gravitas that has made Acne Paper a collectible object since its 2005 launch.
The magazine arrives alongside a physical exhibition at Acne Paper Palais Royal, the brand’s gallery space in the historic arcade. On view until July 26, the show presents a series of eighty gelatin silver prints by Dutch photographer Carlijn Jacobs, whose work explores the tension between staged and candid portraiture. The exhibition extends the issue’s autobiographical theme into the gallery.
In an era when most brand magazines have been reduced to thin lookbooks or QR-code placeholders, Acne Paper’s continued investment in physical editorial represents a deliberate counter-current. The thirty-year mark is not treated as a destination but as a frame for the next decade.
Issue 21 resists the conventional anniversary format. Rather than a retrospective of best moments, it offers a fragmented, sometimes dissonant portrait of a brand that has always operated slightly outside fashion’s mainstream. Contributions include conversations with architects, musicians, and artists who have shaped Acne Studios’s visual language — none of whom are conventionally fashion voices.
