Acne Paper

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title: "Acne Paper" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2005-establishments-in-sweden", "2014-disestablishments-in-sweden", "biannual-magazines", "defunct-magazines-published-in-sweden", "fashion-magazines", "magazines-established-in-2005", "magazines-disestablished-in-2014", "magazines-published-in-stockholm", "swedish-language-magazines"] description: "Culture magazine based in Stockholm, Sweden" topic_path: "geography/sweden" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acne_Paper" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Culture magazine based in Stockholm, Sweden ::

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Field	Value
image_file	Acne Paper (magazine) Winter 2011 cover.jpg
image_caption	Winter 2011 cover with Leigh Bowery
editor	Thomas Persson
editor_title	Editor-in-Chief
frequency	Biannual
publisher	Acne Studios
founder	Jonny Johansson
founded
firstdate
finaldate	2023
finalnumber	#18
country	Sweden
based	Stockholm
website
issn	2000-0707
oclc	243941041
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| logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Acne Paper (magazine) Winter 2011 cover.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Winter 2011 cover with Leigh Bowery | editor = Thomas Persson | editor_title = Editor-in-Chief | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Biannual | circulation = | publisher = Acne Studios | founder = Jonny Johansson | founded = | firstdate = | finaldate = 2023 | finalnumber = #18 | company = | country = Sweden | based = Stockholm | language = | website = | issn = 2000-0707 | oclc = 243941041 Founded in 2005, Acne Paper is a bi-annual culture magazine and the publishing arm of the Stockholm-based creative collective and fashion label Acne Studios (Ambition to Create Novel Expression). Originally published between 2005 and 2014, the magazine returned in 2021.

History and profile

The founder and editor at large of Acne Paper was Jonny Johansson. The headquarters of the magazine was in Stockholm, and it had an office in Paris.

Aiming to merge the historical with the contemporary, each issue of Acne Paper evolved around a key theme with the purpose of representing all creative practices in the context of history, philosophy, science, journalism, and other academia. Textual content consisted of interviews, prose, poems, and essays that together with fashion editorial, visual portfolios, and artwork formulates its approach to the creative industry and its cultural voice and expression. By creating a high-profile publishing product in an A3 ISO 216 format, Acne Paper was part of revolutionizing brand communication as Acne does not advertise or market itself in traditional fashion media such as editorial campaigns.

The New York Times’ Cathy Horyn writes “Acne Paper, under the editorship of Thomas Persson, is fast becoming one of the best little fashion magazines ... the envy of mainstream glossies". As well as "The appeal of Acne Paper was the unfettered blend of the new and the nostalgic, except it doesn’t feel like nostalgia in this context. Maybe it just feels free". Susannah Frankel of The Independent writes "There is an organic and authentic quality to Acne Paper, a sense of it extending above and beyond an obviously commercially viable concern, which is genuinely inspiring.".

In 2006 Acne Paper was exhibited at the Visionaire Gallery in New York as part of their MEGAZINES exhibition. In 2008 Acne Paper No 4 Playfulness won the D&AD award for Magazine and Newspaper Design – Entire Magazines, Magazine and Newspaper Design Front Cover, Typography – Magazine and Newspaper Design Homage as well as Photography – Magazine and Newspaper Design Homage.

The last issue of the original run of Acne Paper was #15 published in 2014.

In 2021, the magazine relaunched with a longer, 500-page format.

Themes of issues

• No 1 The City
• No 2 Escapism
• No 3 Education
• No 4 Playfulness
• No 5 Elegance
• No 6 Exoticism
• No 7 Tradition
• No 8 Eroticism
• No 9 Art/Spirituality
• No 10 Legendary Parties
• No 11 The Artist's Studio
• No 12 Youth
• No 13 The Body
• No 14 Manhattan
• No 15 The Actress
• No 16 The Age of Aquarius
• No 17 Atticus
• No 18 House of Acne Paper

References

References

1. "About".
2. "About Us". Acne Paper.
3. "Northern Discretion: Thomas Persson of Acne Paper". Interview Magazine.
4. Thomas Persson. (14 April 2008). "For the Moment". The New York Times.
5. (16 March 2011). "Brands' own magazines to render 'old' fashion media obsolete?". The Independent.
6. (8 January 2010). "Style – The boom in branded magazines". Financial Times.
7. Cathy Horyn. (1 June 2009). "Bikini Mowing". Runway.blogs.nytimes.com.
8. Eric Wilson. (14 October 2009). "Stockholm Label Acne Wants to Be Known for More Than Jeans". The New York Times.
9. Susannah Frankel. (1 August 2011). "Paper dreams: The latest issue of Acne's magazine – Features – Fashion". The Independent.
10. (7 July 2006). "'Zine Queens". Fashion week daily.
11. "D&AD". Dandad.
12. "Acne Paper ‘The Actress’ #15". Alex Eagle.

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