Jeanerica’s Year of Love continues with exclusive Le Sundial collection

“Lord Byron,” Jonas Clason says, before rattling off other names – Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf. In a building overlooking a quiet courtyard just off Stockholm’s buzzing Tegnérgatan, the co-founder of European denim house Jeanerica is speaking about love letters, and about the authors behind some of history’s most passionate exchanges. Though speaking of love requires no justification, Clason’s reverie comes with context: Jeanerica has declared 2026 The Year of Love. With two collections unfolding within the year-long theme, as well as an exclusive collaboration with Italian jewellery brand Le Sundial, Jeanerica the brand seeks to expand its timeless ready-to-wear universe with softness and intention – reaching far beyond the confines of fleeting trends.

Jeanerica was founded in 2018 by two cornerstones of Swedish fashion, Lena Patriksson Keller and Jonas Clason. Having built the Swedish brand Whyred together in the early 2000s, the long-term friends were drawn back into collaboration by the pull of creating a new denim house. Their vision was to elevate denim’s democratic spirit into a premium, seasonless brand rooted in craftsmanship, mindful production and longevity.

While denim remains at its heart, Jeanerica embraces kindred pieces such as refined workwear – in Clason’s words, “things that belong together.” At its core, the brand seeks a more European sensibility, softening Scandinavian cool with warmer, emotive tones. Alongside growing its presence across the US and major European capitals, Jeanerica opened its first flagship store in Stockholm in late 2024. And at the Tegnérgatan HQ, which houses an atelier upstairs, more expansions are already in the works. “It’s been quite the journey,” Clason says of the past eight years.

Jeanerica’s first collection for The Year of Love is spring/summer 26’s 'Love Letters': an ode to the written word, and to real connection in a world that moves too fast. The season plays out in London, where a French woman and an Englishman fall in love, their story unfolding across shared afternoons at home, and strolls through quiet corners of the metropolis. Clason shares that inspiration for the pieces in the collection came from musing, “How do these people who write love letters to each other dress themselves? How do they live?” The ensuing collection captures the brand’s ethos of versatility, of swapping elements in or out to suit the occasion and company. “We’re not the type of brand that tells you how to wear something. On the contrary, we make pieces that you can mix and match and wear as you like, according to personal style.”

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Having enlisted the eye of stylist Benjamin Canares, Love Letters was shot on location at a house in London’s Hackney, where the slant of fading afternoon light lends the scenes a sense of longing, echoing the transience of a potentially brief encounter. Clason, whose mother taught English and French, spent many summers on England’s and France’s south coasts and knows this feeling of impermanence well. “When I was younger, whether passing through Hastings, Weymouth or Banyuls-Sur-Mer, there were fleeting moments of love or friendship, and then they were gone,” he says. “There’s a melancholy within that which is also very beautiful.”

This personal feel is echoed in the season’s hues: soft ecru, powder blue, faded greys, and sun-bleached indigo – the tones of handwritten letters and linen sheets drying in a summer breeze. Familiar Jeanerica silhouettes are gently reworked for the season, with lighter fabrics, softer structures and added fluidity lending the collection a more relaxed, lived-in ease. Love Letters also expands the brand’s chino offering, introducing a washed 100% cotton that feels worn-in from first touch and appears across a handful of effortless, everyday pieces.

With no detail overlooked, smaller touches round out the collection, from a boiled-wool pillbox hat made in Stockholm’s archipelago to subtle motifs of love that reward a closer look. Delicate brooches crafted by a Stockholm silversmith add a slightly punk edge, while a tiny letter bears the words, “Like a leaf clings to a tree. Oh my darling, cling to me” – a line from 'Wild Is the Wind' – quietly underscoring the collection’s romantic undercurrent.

Taking its founding principle of denim elevation to even greater heights, Jeanerica complements 'Love Letters' through an exclusive collaboration with Italian jewellery studio Le Sundial.

The limited collection of handcrafted jewellery marks the fourth output from Jeanerica Atelier – the brand’s platform for creative collaborations. It is, most notably, the first to feature jewellery. “As we aim to elevate denim, it felt like such a natural combination”, says Jeanerica co-founder Lena Patriksson Keller, draped in a long, open-ended necklace of shell and pearls, designed specifically for the collection.

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Jeanerica Atelier x Le Sundial not only reflects the two brands’ shared ethos of timeless design, but celebrates love through its ownangle. In the words of Le Sundial founder, Silvia Dusci, the collection honours “love for craftsmanship, for time, and for objects made with intention, pieces that quietly accompany everyday life and stay with us like something truly cherished.”

Born of Patriksson Keller and Dusci’s serendipitous encounters in Copenhagen and Paris, the collaboration grew organically: after Milan-based Dusci came to Stockholm to present her first collection at Galerie Storm, a flurry of correspondence (not quite love letters, but emails), set the vision for the collection. “We talked about certain washes, and Silvia talked about certain colours – it was a very creative process”, Patriksson Keller shares. “The nerdiness Silvia has with her jewellery is very similar to the nerdiness we have with our denim”, she jokes.

Dusci’s desire to create “sculptural pieces, wearable objects” lies at the heart of her brand, which she founded just two years ago. The Jeanerica Atelier x Le Sundial collection includes reimagined takes on some of her signature designs – such as an indigo rendition of the Venice Opera Earrings recently worn by Gwyneth Paltrow – as well as bespoke pieces created exclusively for the collaboration. “I love that you can wear the jewellery as easily as the denim, but that it also feels special and can change your style or how you feel, all in an effortless way.”, Dusci says.

Weaving together materials like smoky quartz, cream pearls, and brown-toned shells, the resulting palette creates a subtle dialogue between the fabrics and the jewellery. “I wanted to work with materials that feel alive”, Dusci says of her quest for the perfect shades to match Jeanerica’s tones. “This stone was a great discovery”, she continues, referring to the blue sodalite beads that form the Nautilus Cobalto Collar necklace. “The colour is incredible, it feels just like the collection. With natural inclusions, it goes from deep blue to milky tones – different every time, like denim washes. It's not just decorative, it's more of an introspective colour.” The silver is kept untreated, as seen in the Nautilus detail on the clasp, and on earrings created exclusively for the collaboration. Dusci loves how the metal ages with time – not unlike the way worn-in denim’s faded tones show the passing of time.

“When I design, I find inspiration in vintage objects, interiors and architecture”, Dusci says of observing details that she translates into jewellery: “The Deco Ring”, featuring Art Deco-inspired lines within a structured silver frame, exemplifies this creative practice.

“When you look at vintage objects, they're always connected to the sense of time, to the past – when people took time to make things. It inspires me, and is something I would never change”, she says, explaining her rejection of mass production, as well as the nod to time in her brand name. “That's why I want to keep the collection very small, and transform pieces that already exist.” Dusci solely helms all creative and administrative aspects of the brand, something which she considers appropriate for the deeply personal nature of jewellery. “It's part of me, inseparable.” She sketches the pieces before entrusting her ideas to a circle of “incredibly talented local artisans” who refine the technical specifics, such as the balance of proportions.

“There is a particular craftsmanship in Italy, which inspires us”, Patriksson Keller agrees, proffering the long-standing relationships that Jeanerica has with its suppliers and production collaborators in the south of Italy, and pattern makers in its north. For Dusci in Milan, her daily visits to the workshop of an all-female atelier reflect the importance she places on unrushed craftsmanship. As someone for whom love is “about choosing what we decide to care for”, it is clear that the sentiment extends beyond the material. “They researched the stones, they put all the necklaces together. They’re such a vital part of the journey that I'm creating”, she says of the women. “Without them, it wouldn't be possible.”

While 'Love Letters' launched The Year of Love, its sentiment is echoed in the upcoming autumn/winter collection, 'Don’t Walk Behind Me'. As the name suggests, inspiration was drawn from the lines, “Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow”. Attributed to the French philosopher and author Albert Camus, the quote ends with the emphatically heart-warming: “Walk beside me, just be my friend".

Flipping the coin on the East London component of 'Love Letters', the AW collection was shot in Paris, imbuing the imagery with a distinctly French feel. A quiet ode to community and friendship, the collection is built in softened layers. Classic forms such as duffelcoat and peacoat are reimagined in lighter fabrics, to encourage mixing and fluidity of personal expression, much like the celebration of acceptance and togetherness that inspired the collection.

While 'Don’t Walk Behind Me' will be revealed in greater detail later into The Year of Love, it will surely comprise one vital component. Beyond timeless design, ethically produced fabrics, and a dedication to creating elevated pieces that endure, there is one ingredient that may not be found on a label, but can be felt in every Jeanerica collection: it’s love, actually.

'Love Letters' is live on Jeanerica’s website and in-store at Nybrogatan 3 in Stockholm. The Jeanerica Atelier x Le Sundial collection is available exclusively through Jeanerica’s and Le Sundial’s own channels, both online and in-store, with selected pieces available at Moda Operandi.