Acne Fashion

Acne 

Founded in Stockholm in 1996 by four creatives, Acne's ambition was to create and develop a lifestyle brand through desirable products, as well as helping other people to build their brands. This ambition led to diverse assignments in advertising, graphic design, Internet games and TV production. Acne was one of the first brands to see the space in the market for denim and used this forward thinking to create 100 pairs of unisex jeans. They were featured in Swedish Elle magazine and soon, Sweden's leading boutiques wanted to carry the characteristic jeans with bright-red stitching. These are the foundations of Acne.

This acne has nothing to do with skin blemishes. This is "fashion" all the way. Below you can learn more about Acne fashion. After reading, feel free to comment regarding this fashion brand.
Founded in Stockholm in 1996 by four creatives, Acne’s ambition was to create and develop a lifestyle brand through desirable products, as well as helping other people to build their brands. This ambition led to diverse assignments in advertising, graphic design, Internet games and TV production. Acne was one of the first brands to see the space in the market for denim and used this forward thinking to create 100 pairs of unisex jeans. They were featured in Swedish Elle magazine and soon, Sweden’s leading boutiques wanted to carry the characteristic jeans with bright-red stitching. These are the foundations of Acne.

Jonny Johansson ACNE’s creative director, branched out into other design genres. The first full collection was launched in 1998, and it set the tone for the brand – the subtle luxury and understated items originates from the ethos that the clothes should feel like someone’s wardrobe. Cool and personal. The result is that nothing dominates anything else, yet every piece is effortlessly stylish.
This company has also created the ACNE Paper, which was developed as a visual form of communicating the ACNE collective and what inspires it. The Independent Newspaper describes it as “pointing to the future of fashion publishing.”

With stores and projects across nine countries, Acne is today recognized internationally as a creative collective, unique for its corporate diversity in fashion, graphic design, film production and advertising, as well as product, business and concept development.

Today the full team reaches over 200, each as enthusiastic about the brand as the original four creatives.

Below is a brief history of some of the Acne accomplishments

1996 : Acne is established as creative collective
1997 : 100 pairs of raw denim jeans with red stitching is produced and distributed to family and friends
1998 : First Acne collection is launched
2000 : Awarded ‘Designer of the Year’ by Swedish Elle magazine
2003 : The first Acne Studio opens in Stockholm
2004 : Awarded the fashion award Guldknappen for best design by Swedish fashion magazine, Damernas Varld
2005 : Awarded ‘Denim Designer of the Year’ by Swedish Elle magazine. An additional three Acne Studios open in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berlin. The bi-annual Acne Paper is launched
2006 : Acne Studio opens in Gothenburg
2007 : Acne Studios opens in Oslo and Hamburg
2008 : Acne Studios opens in New York, Paris, Vienna and Bergen
Awarded ‘Designer of the Year’ by Swedish Elle magazine.
2009 : Acne Studios opens in Amsterdam, Stavanger and Sydney. Awarded ‘Designer of the Year’ by Swedish Café magazine

Above is only part of the story. If you know more about this brands history, you are welcome to add to the comments below.

HAVE YOU PURCHASED ACNE FASHION PRODUCTS? WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS BRAND? I am not too thrilled with the name because it reminds me of pimples. That is NOT my opinion on their fashion, just on the selection of the brand name. Probably their is another meaning in other languages.

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A.F. Vandevorst

A.F. Vandevorst

Founded by An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx, the A.F Vandevorst line is a complete women's ready-to-wear collection comprising shoes, lingerie, bags, and accessories. The ready to wear collection is developed and produced with Belgian manufacturers from inception with specific outsourcing in Turkey for certain categories such as jersey. The shoes and accessories are often developed and manufactured in Italy. A.F. Vandevost shows twice a year during the Paris Fashion Week. They also present new collections at their own international showrooms. They are shown in Antwerp, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and Berlin. The collection is often being sold at prestigious shops and department stores in Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, Moscow, etc.

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Stray Heart Fashion Brand

Junk Food Clothing has just announced the Fall 2013 launch of its highly anticipated women's contemporary line, Stray Heart- a collection of pieces for the effortless female style inspired by the modern gamine. Stray Heart is a directional everyday basics line of bright and modern go-to-pieces that is made with love in the USA. Inspired by a sense of adventure, Stray Heart's mission is to infuse each piece with the effortless, efficient, and romantic spirit that defines the brand and embrace the firm belief that just because you stray, doesn't mean you're lost. Sensibilities borrowed from both runways and the road, every silhouette is named after a street including, Ricki St, Isabel St, and Luna St. to name a few, the line is made for girls on the go. She is adventurous, curious, and effortlessly chic; as she travels she takes note of her favorite stops and shops along the way and embodies the stray heart at every fashionista's core being.

For the first season, the story revolves around clean-lined athletic influences contrasted with the toss-on edge of 90's grunge. "The classic old-school image of editors wearing running shoes during fashion week and tying a hoodie around the waist inspired us to turned this laid back, irreverent spirit into Stray Heart, while maintaining the polish that make such style choices feel fresh in the first place," says Andrei Najjar, Vice President of Marketing. The Stray Heart Fall '13 collection features custom developed fabrics in a range of vibrant colors. The collection is full of both bold hues such as pinks, corals, and turquoise as well as crisp and clean whites, grey, and black basics. The line ranges from the basic scoop neck t-shirt to the front pocket hoodie, the pullover sweaters to the shawl collar cardigan, each piece is given the Stray Heart twist with thoughtful details and new proportions to enhance your closet favorites. Stray Heart turned this laid back, irreverent spirit into their Fall line, while maintaining the polish that make such style choices feel fresh in the first place.

The Stray Heart collection of ultra chic everyday basics ranges in price from $46-$108 and will be available late this summer on www.strayheartla.com.

Many stars wear Junk Food Clothing.  Here at the Blog About Fashion, we assume many more will wear the new brand.

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OK, this is nothing new, but we just wanted to remind you that social media is important for fashion designers to spread the word about their brand.

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