FROM THE VAULT (WINTER 2010)
NAME: Jonny Johansson.
MAGAZINES/EMPLOYERS: Acne.
OCCUPATION: founder and creative director of Acne.
OFFICIAL JOB TITLE: Creative director.
STAR SIGN: Aries.
PORN-STAR NAME (FIRST PET’S NAME + MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME): Molly Bomgren.
FIRST JOB: Gardening – one of those jobs you do in connection with school.
WORST JOB: When I worked at the pay office of a badminton hall.
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING (ON THE DAY YOUR PORTRAIT WAS TAKEN)? Acne Roc jeans, Acne Bad T-shirt, blue tailor blazer, YSL shoes.
ARE YOU PART OF THE ZEITGEIST? I guess.
HAVE YOU EVER USED/WOULD YOU EVER USE SEX TO FURTHER YOUR CAREER? If that would be the case I would be the happiest man in the world. But I’ve only seen it for other people – it never worked for me, or does that make me a bad lover?
WHAT DO YOU LIKE? Being with my family.
WHAT DO YOU HATE? I hate to be sick.
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES? WHO DO YOU LOOK UP TO? Mattias Karlsson and Thomas Persson. All the people I work with – Frida Bard, Christoffer Lundman, Hampus Bernhoff, Yolanda Zobel and Nicole Janota.
IF NOT YOU, WHO/WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE? I guess a musician, successful that means. No, nothing – I’m quite happy.
WHAT’S YOUR POISON? Anger.
ARE YOU A BITCH? No, people love me.
WHAT TURNS YOU ON? The start of the day, basically.
SELL YOURSELF IN 10 WORDS: Cheap, happy, easy, just bit crazy sometimes, not too much.
WHAT’S UP AND COMING? Me!
by Natalie Dembinska
Photograph by Maria Ziegelboeck – www.mariaziegelboek.com