Acne Studios Blends 70s Edge with Modern Sport for Spring 2026

Jogging-bottom volumes, latex-coated denim, and seventies collars meet in Acne Studios’s Spring 2026 menswear, where geeky confidence beats polished perfection.

Acne Studios Blends 70s Edge with Modern Sport for Spring 2026
Acne Studios Blends 70s Edge with Modern Sport for Spring 2026

A continuing examination of masculinity anchors Acne Studios’s Spring 2026 menswear, where sharp sportswear flashes meet the wistful charm of hand-me-downs. Creative director Jonny Johansson imagines a college-age protagonist who dresses on the move, perhaps leaping onto a Piaggio Ciao moped, its relaxed hum threading through Stockholm side streets. The result is spontaneous, eclectic, and deliberately imperfect, a marked move from last season’s quest for sartorial polish.

“We keep exploring and rebuilding the emblematic codes of the menswear wardrobe,” Johansson says. “This time, it’s with a geeky, quietly confident attitude that beats perfection by far. Our character is cool and unbothered—that’s where his charisma comes from.” That attitude steers silhouettes between stretched and shrunken, elongated and oversized. Jogging-bottom volume informs tailored trousers; shorts are abbreviated; and a slim, boot-cut pant arrives like liner notes slipped from a 1979 vinyl sleeve.

Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear

The seventies guide much of the detailing—elongated collars on narrow shirting, flashes of silk, and the debut of slim-cut “1979” jeans. Two decades later, straight-leg, low-waist “2010” denim returns in a new “mended” treatment. Leather sets, cut with almost surgical precision, brush against latex-coated denim that clings with athletic stretch. Wardrobe archetypes, bomber, biker, cowboy, appear either razor-sharp or playfully oversized, some layered with Japanese prints or trompe-l’œil panels where denim seems “torn” to expose retro florals beneath.

Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear

Texture drives the story. Checkered wools, silk knits, and plaids offset sleek leather and latex-denim, while nostalgic wash techniques lend denim the patina of long wear. Colors drift from sun-bleached neutrals to jolts of electric blue, yellow, and Acne’s signature pink; earthy browns and beiges ground the palette the way sepia grounds a film photograph.

Accessories double as self-portraits. Seventies aviator frames, DIY-energy logo caps, and a returning cowboy boot confirm Acne’s knack for cult objects. Slip-on loafers borrow the ease of a car shoe, buckled sandals deconstruct leather straps, and the Camero bag arrives recast in a patchwork of fabrics and sizes.

Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear

At heart, the collection prizes friction and play, trusting intuition over rigor. By mixing decades, purposes, and proportions, wearing sports gear for the wrong sport, or no sport at all, Johansson reasserts that charisma can feel casual, and that imperfection, worn lightly, can be its own quiet luxury.

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