Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase
*Celebration of Identity and Intimacy
written AMANDA MORTENSON
Visitors to Frieze New York 2025 are welcomed by a vibrant new encounter between art and fashion. Acne Studios deepens its creative dialogue with Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase through a capsule collection and exhibition at Greene Street, New York.
This collaboration is rooted in mutual admiration and expands on Chase’s earlier work for Acne Studios’ Spring/Summer 2025 womenswear show, where soft sculptures and expressive objects transformed the runway into a layered domestic setting.
The creative partnership flourishes once again in May, as Acne Studios Greene Street transforms into an exhibition space. The installation features an evocative blend of soft sculpture, painting, and sculptural furniture. Each work carries the emotional depth and physicality that define Lyndon Chase’s practice. Their characters, often drawn from personal relationships, appear across the space in a dynamic interplay of form and material.
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection
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The setting channels a powerful sense of home and tenderness, shaped by Chase’s rich aesthetic language. Their pieces reinterpret familiar objects, lamps, fans, sinks, radios, picture frames, and place them into a new emotional context. Through this lens, domesticity becomes a site of queerness and personal narrative.
Alongside the exhibition, the exclusive capsule collection ‘Acne Studios Loves Jonathan Lyndon Chase’ launches with a range of expressive pieces. Chase’s illustrations, which evoke intimacy and connection, animate garments and homeware. Acne Studios’ iconic bow motif receives a vivid transformation through Chase’s hand, adding new texture to its recognisable design elements.
The capsule includes Acne Studios’ ‘1981’ jeans reimagined through Chase’s sensibility, as well as long- and short-sleeved T-shirts that serve as wearable canvases. Homeware pieces—cushions and a blanket—extend the collection’s narrative into interior spaces, offering warmth and visual storytelling. The textile choices play with illusion; denim-like finishes recall Acne Studios’ origins while welcoming softness and touch.
Chase’s artwork moves fluidly across these forms, creating a collection where each piece holds meaning beyond material. Their figures (often inspired by friends or/and lovers) emerge through loose, expressive lines that feel immediate and layered. The use of color and gesture carries emotion in every detail, inviting closeness and reflection.
The Greene Street space becomes a gallery and boutique, offering an immersive view of Chase’s world. It provides room for dialogue between fashion and art, and for personal histories to find shape through creativity. The pieces shown extend beyond the runway installation, including new works crafted especially for this moment.
Launched on May 7, the collection became available exclusively at Acne Studios Greene Street before expanding to selected Acne Studios stores and online from late June 2025. Its limited release mirrors the ephemeral quality of both the exhibition and the Frieze New York event, creating a sense of intimacy and connection with those who experience it. Jonathan Lyndon Chase continues to gain recognition for a practice that merges visual art, performance, and material experimentation. Their work often centers themes of identity, Blackness, queerness, and emotional presence. In this collaboration, Chase’s voice remains clear and celebrated, fully integrated into the Acne Studios universe without dilution.
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection
The exhibition and capsule are driven by shared values, an embrace of personal storytelling, emotional resonance, and visual boldness. Through this union, Acne Studios demonstrates once again its ongoing commitment to supporting visionary artists. This latest chapter in the Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase collaboration reinforces the role of fashion as an expressive medium. It invites us all to engage with art beyond walls and to wear pieces that speak of connection and imagination.