Acne Studios Reimagines the Menswear Uniform for Spring/Summer '27

For Acne Studios’ Spring/Summer 2027 menswear collection, the office becomes less about dress codes than the small ways people push against them. Creative Director Jonny Johansson looks at the subtle hierarchies of corporate dress and pulls them into something looser and stranger.

“I have been studying people as far back as I can remember,” Johansson says. “Lately, I have been fascinated by individual expression at the office, which can function as a kind of everyday social experiment.”

That experiment plays out through pieces that refuse to stay in their assigned roles. Suits are broken apart, corporate vests lose their stiffness, and leather jackets take the place of traditional tailoring. Classic office signifiers appear slightly off-center: trompe l’œil ties and pockets are sketched onto T-shirts like bored meeting-room doodles, while argyle clashes with satin blousons, studded denim, and gelato shades of pink and pistachio.

The collection treats polish as something unstable. Acne Studios’ signature 1996 and 1979 denim return alongside slimmer, brighter cuts and hybrid pleated jeans, while micro jerseys are layered into double and triple constructions. Knit cardigans feel inherited rather than styled, softening the collection’s corporate references with a worn-in ease.

Age, status, and office archetypes start to blur. Embellished sandals with socks, color-blocked brogues, Cuban-heeled ankle boots, and exaggerated cowboy boots all exist in the same imagined workplace. Narrow scarves, fringed and gradient-painted Camero bags, oversized aviators, and cat-eye sunglasses sharpen the mood without making it feel too fixed.

“For me, office life is the opposite of stiffness; I see it as a playground for my imagination, where I can subvert the codes of a wardrobe,” Johansson says. “What started as an exploration of different characters evolved into a harmonized, Acne Studios remix that captures the culture of the now.”

In Acne Studios’ office, the uniform is still there, just rearranged. What remains is less a dress code than an attitude: polished, disrupted, and quietly aware of how much clothes can say before anyone speaks.