Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase *Exhibition

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.

(c) ACNE Studios
Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection

(c) ACNE Studios

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.

(c) ACNE Studios
Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection

(c) ACNE Studios

(c) ACNE Studios
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.

RIMOWA and Rick Owens

PATINA + POWER
*RIMOWA x Rick Owens Collaboration

written AMANDA MORTENSON

Travel has a new edge. The RIMOWA x Rick Owens collaboration introduces a suitcase that reshapes the language of movement.

The Original Cabin Bronze emerges from the hands of two visionaries, each committed to pushing the limits of material and meaning. At its core, the collaboration fractures the traditional notions of luxury. Rick Owens’s unmistakable aesthetic—dark, unapologetic, and raw—melds with RIMOWA’s century-long mastery of aluminium craftsmanship. The bronzed exterior, achieved through a meticulous pigment process, becomes a surface alive with its own imperfections and evolution.

RIMOWA x RICK OWENS
Michèle Lamy seen by Matteo Carcelli

“I wanted the outside finish to recall a bronze from Giacometti or Serra, and I wanted the interior to feel like the touch of a black leather glove.”

Rick Owens

Inside, Owens alters the language of travel interiors. The fully leather-lined design—a first for RIMOWA—invitates to engage with texture. The aluminium shell merges seamlessly with Rick Owens’s leather, creating a unified tactile experience. Flex Dividers, reimagined in this material, showcase Owens’s meticulous craftsmanship, redefining their function within the space.
The inclusion of a handcrafted luggage tag in coarse, hair-on cowskin disrupts the polished sheen of modernity. It speaks of primal connection, of an object meant to be held and experienced. Owens’s choice of material shifts the narrative from travel as convenience to travel as ritual.

Branding is minimal, emphasizing subtlety and intention. The emblems of both RIMOWA and Rick Owens whisper rather than announce, etched subtly into the surfaces. These marks, understated and deliberate, align with the collection’s ethos: an homage to form and material, unburdened by excess.

Owens’s voice is ever-present. He describes the suitcase as a tribute to the elemental and the eternal: “I wanted the outside finish to recall a bronze from Giacometti or Serra, and I wanted the interior to feel like the touch of a black leather glove.” His vision extends beyond the physical, layering memory and emotion into the object’s very fabric.

The new Original Cabin Bronze commands attention, forcing a reexamination of what it means to carry, to move, to possess. Its patina speaks in textures, rejecting order and expectation. RIMOWA and Rick Owens deliver an object of rebellion.

Commission &PaulSmith Collaboration *Archival-Inspired

New Collaboration
Commission &PaulSmith
* Tribute to Archival Style & Generational Fashion

written Sarah Arendts

In the vanguard of sartorial innovation, a new collaboration emerges, blending the storied heritage of British design with the pulsating edge of New York's modern aesthetic.

The &PaulSmith series, renowned for its discerning partnerships, presents its latest venture: a limited-edition collection with the NYC-based label Commission, a dynamic fusion of archival inspiration and generational homage.

The inception of this alliance took root through the CFDA's discerning eye, planting seeds of creative camaraderie between Paul Smith and Commission's co-founders, Dylan Cao and Jin Kay. Smith, with his repository of British design ethos, finds kinship in the diasporic narrative of Cao and Kay, whose design philosophy is a tender nod to their East Asian heritage and the professional panache of the 90s.

The collection, christened ‘Commission &PaulSmith,’ unfolds as a narrative thread, binding the familial bonds of 'Father & Son' — a photographic anthology by Paul and his late father Harold Smith. The book's visual dialogues mirror the collection's essence, where Harold's "light, witty juxtapositions" meet Paul's poignant snapshots. This correlation with Cao and Kay's generational musings solidifies the collection's undercurrent.

Diving into the Paul Smith archives, the duo resurrects the vigor of the late 90s — a period Smith himself describes with evident zeal: “Tapping into new ideas is exactly why I wanted to start the &PaulSmith series, and Commission is brimming with them.” The admiration is mutual, as Dylan and Jin reflect on the archive's "mash-up of preppy, sex, and post-punk" aesthetics that profoundly resonate with their own ethos.

The tangible fruits of this collaboration are 22 masterpieces. From the sweeping wool-cashmere overcoat to the butter yellow leather field jacket, each piece is an exaggerated echo of the past, reimagined for the contemporary wardrobe. The designers inject a sense of nostalgia into the oversized silhouettes, while the color palette, rich in browns, yellows, and blacks, is electrified with vibrant reds, blues, and greens.

Commission &PaulSmith
collaboration campaign

Distinctive to Commission are the "fatherly stripes" and the audacious red flourishes, alongside coats that reinterpret the classic mac in fabrics like padded cotton-jersey and gabardine. Their signature back yoke shape design stands as a testament to their inventive tailoring. Commission's roots in punk aesthetics intertwine with Americana through raw denim and embroidered monograms, evoking Paul Smith's own handwritten logos.

The collection will be an emblem of sartorial storytelling and a homage to cross-generational dialogue. It's not merely about the garments but the stories they embody. As Smith himself mentors Commission in business development, one sees not just a collection being crafted but a legacy being woven.

creative visuals
(c) Paul Smith