The exhibition is open from December 5 – January 4, 2026 at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town.
Fashion creations that interpret this year’s Nobel Prize
In the Nobel Creations project, students in year 1 of the fashion program create free interpretations of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace, as well as the Prize for Economic Sciences of the Swedish Riksbank in memory of Alfred Nobel.
The creations explore what unites Nobel Prize winners, artists and makers: creativity – the courage to think in new ways, to question established theories and innovative combinations of insights from different fields. The creations also put a new spin on formal wear and show how special occasions, celebrations and dignity can be expressed in fashion design.
Fashion photo by Carl Bengtsson
This year’s six creations were photographed in the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Library by fashion and portrait photographer Carl Bengtsson.
Photo assistant: Jakob Sandell
Hair/make-up: Helena Borg
Model: Anna Juvander, Mikas
How can a Nobel Prize be interpreted in fashion?
Read more about this year’s six creations and how the students interpreted each award.
Fred – Zenaida auriculata performed by Johan Peralta and Zuzanna Mieczkowska
Nobel Peace Prize The 2025 Peace Prize is awarded to Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado for her fight for democracy.
“This dress symbolizes the transition from dictatorship to democracy. The lower part is characterized by irregular cuts that reflect chaos, control and oppressed freedom. Gradually the structure at the waist calms down and turns into a smooth and harmonious surface, a movement towards peace and balance. At the neck, a curtain is formed that ends in the silhouette of the pink eared dove (Zenaida auriculata), a symbol of hope and freedom. The dress tells about the journey from oppression to liberation, from darkness to light.”
Economy – Creative Destruction interpreted by Johanna Strand and Allada Wärdell
The 2025 Economics Prize is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, who visualize the development when older structures are reformed.
“From the ground up, the skirt spreads out like an outdated system. The silhouette tapers into a smocked part, representing a phase in which resources, ideas and power are gathered and restructured. The top develops into a Phoenix with feather details, expressing rebirth. The whole shows how renewal happens in stages: first dissolution, then concentration and finally transformation in a new direction. The dress becomes a concrete interpretation of growth through transformation.”
Medicine – YouU interpreted by Odessa Calloway and Lovisa Schmidt
This year’s medicine prize is awarded to researchers Mary Brunkow, Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsdell for their groundbreaking discoveries in the field of peripheral immune tolerance, which prevents the immune system from harming the body.
“In the inner landscape of the body, the movements of life flow. In our design, science, feeling, structure and rhythm meet. At the heart of the work burns a rising sun that, together with the T-cell, the guardian of the body, become symbols of hope: a new opportunity and a fairy tale about a better life. The shifting surfaces represent a living, ever-changing function. The inner life arises and becomes visible.”
Literature – Eclipse interpreted by Charlie Hoffmann and Mustafa Husseini
This year’s Literature Prize is awarded to László Krasznahorkai “for his visionary and powerful writing style that maintains confidence in the possibilities of art amid the horror of disaster.”
“A sculptural interpretation: a body in balance between order and collapse, an origami form like a crystallized remnant of a lost civilization, silence in the midst of movement. Sharp points bear traces of time and resistance, the fabric in the moment between fall and redemption; black velvet forms the silhouette of human endurance in the poetic ruin where thought and matter meet, a garment that waits.”
Physics – Confined state interpreted by Linnea Bergsten and Tobias Börjesson
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical circuit.”
“The creation depicts the atoms randomly arranged in a probability cloud. We worked with circular volumes at different scales, from micro to macro. The garment has its own shape, not that of the body, which gives a sense of confinement. The silhouette depicts a closed formation as if you were behind a barrier. Like a quantum phenomenon, cascades of beads tunnel their way out.”
Chemistry – Metamorphosis interpreted by Emma Castel, Julian Dahlberg and Sultan Mosawi
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOF) – materials in which metal ions and organic molecules are linked together to form crystals with enormous cavities.
“The silhouette shows a continuous transformation. A process in which gas turns into liquid form through the large cavities of the diamond structure. The result is a new, refined form. Shimmering copper colors weave in the presence and energy of metal ions. A framework that captures the meeting between the sculptural and the organic. A physical and symbolic metamorphosis that reminds us of the eternal cycle of change.”
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