Gold-toned spreads meet street-level spectacle as Acne Paper celebrates two decades with Issue 20, landing in stores and on store fronts.
Acne Paper, the magazine Acne Studios introduced back in 2005, makes its return with Issue 20, a twentieth-anniversary edition titled Golden. The biannual went on pause in 2014; its re-emergence folds the archive into the present, proof that print still pulls focus.
Paris, New York, and Beijing flagships have traded mannequins for Szilveszter Makó’s portraits of Raya Martigny, turning passing crowds into readers before the door even opens. Inside, gold, both metal and metaphor, threads through fashion stories, essays, interviews, and art portfolios that span 2005 to 2025.
The contributor roll-call is stacked: Sarah Moon with Patti Wilson, Leslie Zhang with Audrey Hu, Rafael Pavarotti with George Krakowiak, among others. Each pair approaches the theme from its own angle; the result is less a greatest-hits album than a live mix, vital and newly pressed.
Beyond marking two decades, Golden asks what it means to keep a record. Archival pulls sit beside fresh commissions, pushing nostalgia into motion rather than a glass case. The magazine’s hybrid size, part book and part glossy, underscores that intent: something to shelve, but first to read.
Available now in select Acne Studios stores and online, the issue doubles as a street-level installation until the next window change.
