Acne Paper

>> First Look: Acne Paper #10 —Cult biannual magazine Acne Paper is back next month with its Spring 2010 Issue; for the tenth edition's cover, Daniel Jackson captured Rianne Ten Haken, Mirte Maas and Natasa Vojnovic in a classical portrait. No details yet on the issue's contents, but there's a few hints contained in the video of the magazine's printing in Milan posted today on Acne's Journal blog. [Models.com, Acne Journal]

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>> BLOWING THE COVER —The sixty-fourth and last issue of Mixte, which announced it is folding last month, will feature Missy Rayder on the June 2009 cover.  Let's hope it holds up to her recent Acne Paper cover and does the magazine's legacy justice. [COACD Twitter]

>> Carine Roitfeld speaks frequently through the images she creates for Vogue Paris, but the new, erotic-themed issue of Acne Paper provides us with a fly-on-the-wall spot at a candid conversation with the editor.

The woman who will "never wear miniskirts because they make me look older" talks pushing limits — "Never before in Conde Nast's history has there been a transvestite on the cover, and [Andre J.'s cover] sold so well. You think you are going to get into trouble but in the end people are more open than you think" — and dressing demure — "it's always subtle."

But even Carine aspires to be somebody else.

You know the idea of the Saint Laurent woman. What a dream she was: wearing trousers, hand in the pocket, no handbag, transparent shirt. I love that woman. It is exactly who I would have loved to be if I could choose. So I would have to go blonde because he loved the blondes, and I would have to have bigger breasts. But it's the idea of the woman I love, and I try to repeat this in my magazine.

"Jeans are for my assistants." »

>> INSIDER WIRE— She flew under the radar, skipping the red carpet at both the Costume Institute Gala and the Time 100 Dinner (left) earlier this week, but in the new Spring 2009 issue of Acne Paper focused on eroticism, which features an interview with Carine Roitfeld, she's quite candid: “So I would love to get an award for making people have more sex through my images. It would be a great award. Imagine the design of that award!” [Models.com]

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Noam Chomsky may just be America's most annoying intellectual, just as aggrevating as Canada's Noami Klein but not nearly as attractive, so it is with a smirk and a tinge of pleasure that we heard Acne Paper has an interview with the MIT linguist. The seventh issue of the biannual Acne Paper was able to have correspondent Karin Strom speak to Chomsky about the nature of trends in language after sending an interview request from editor in chief Thomas Persson.

Person told Women's Wear Daily that “It was interesting to speak to Chomsky about language because it is something we use everyday, a subject of great tradition, but also of constant change — not unlike fashion, if you think about it.” Persson is also creative director of Swedish clothing label Acne Jeans.

We certainly hope that someone asked if universal or innate grammar might also translate to something like innate style. Though we have to say the cruel irony of this interview is that while language and trends is a fascinating subject no industry is more complicit in the process of manufacturing consent than the fashion press with our propagation of needless trends and frenzied consumerism thanks to our association with corporate celebrity culture.