APTLY titled “A multifaceted sense of self”, yet sharpened into something unapologetically feminine, Acne Studios unveils its Spring/ Summer 2026 campaign through the lens of Nadia Lee Cohen, casting musician Swedish Robyn in a series of portraits that hover between abandon and precision.
The images thrum with the sensual charge of being alive – a current that runs in parallel with Robyn’s forthcoming album, Sexistential, and the collection itself.
Robyn for Acne Studios Spring/ Summer 2026
Robyn for Acne Studios Spring/ Summer 2026
For Creative Director Jonny Johansson, the collaboration felt instinctive. Having enlisted Robyn to compose the soundtrack for the SS26 show at Collège des Bernardins last October, the designer observed a shared preoccupation emerging independently in their work: a simultaneous interrogation and exaltation of the female archetype. It is femininity not as a fixed ideal, but as a living negotiation.
Touching upon this image-making collaboration, he said: “Robyn has always followed her own rhythm, and there’s something fearless in that – but it’s a fearlessness that comes from sensitivity, not ego. She’s never trying to impress anyone, and that’s rare. I’m drawn to people who create worlds, and she does that”.
Robyn for Acne Studios Spring/ Summer 2026
Robyn for Acne Studios Spring/ Summer 2026
Cohen, alongside Creative Director Mel Ottenberg and stylist Tamara Rothstein, draws on the subversive portraiture of the 1970s and 80s, framing Robyn as both strong and sensual, as well as self-possessed. In SS26’s interplay of menswear and womenswear – defined by poplin shirting with epaulettes, coated fabrics, denim, reworked Camero bags, and the emblematic cowboy boot – identity appears fluid and deliberately unstable.
For Robyn, the act of dressing becomes a sophisticated form of drag, tying vulnerability and toughness together in deliberate tension, projected with lucid intent.
by Imogen Clark