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Acne Paper x Roe Ethridge

Karlie Kloss Mixes Business and Pleasure in a Monochrome Manhattan

Photographer Roe Ethridge teams up with Missouri-born model Karlie Kloss to merge the charm of Breakfast at Tiffany’s with the attitude of Working Girl in this Acne Paper preview. Shooting in vintage black and white, Ethridge channels modernist greats such as Cecil Beaton and Helmut Newton to put a contemporary, downtown spin on couture and cocktails. Represented by Gagosian Gallery and having exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Ethridge is known for his ability to upset conventional archetypes. Here, he blurs disciplinary boundaries by stepping out of his fine art background and into the world of fashion. Against the photographer's classic editorial backdrop, precise and imaginative styling by Marie Chaix transforms otherwise hard-shell looks from the likes of Lanvin, Jil Sander and Manolo Blahnik, with the results conveying an ageless sense of urban style. "Each theme has to have a timeless quality,” explains Acne Editor-in-Chief Thomas Persson of choosing to devote the latest issue of the bi-annual to New York City. “We roam through history while creating work that is up-to-the-minute.”

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