Acne & DVF Give You a Place to Rest Your 6” Heels

Don't put either Diane Von Furstenberg or Acne--the Swedish fashion brand and design
collective--in a box. In fact, both are expanding this season in a rather unlikely way: furniture. Neither method of branching out is necessarily a surprise. Acne, for starters, is no one-trick pony: its collective is responsible for a coveted bi-annual magazine, and equally drool-inducing fashions and advertising. Besides, its head, Jonny Johansson, actually got his start designing furniture. Johansson has remained relatively mum about details, although he has cited mid-century, Swedish master Carl Malmsten as his inspiration. "The hand-crafted nature of [his] pieces sums up the handy crafting movement and it’s simplicity and quality is super interesting to me," he told Grazia.

The move from DVF isn’t much of a shock either: she’s already done everything from swimwear to luggage. And, like Johansson, it’s not DVF’s first time doing furniture: the line marks DVF’s “first entry into a full-line, freestanding home collection, although she did a program in the 1970s with Sears,” says HFN. All the latter seems to know at this point is that “it will debut with a Collection line targeted at the department and better specialty store channel.” The year does mark an official first for DVF, however. Not only does the yoga-adoring designer have a furniture line up her sleeves. She debuted her first-ever sunglasses line this month as well.