Nobel Creations 2025 at the Nobel Prize Museum
December 5, 2025
The exhibition is open from December 5 to January 4, 2026, at the Nobel Museum in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Listen to Stil i P1's report from the exhibition here.
Fashion creations interpreting this year's Nobel Prize
In the Nobel Creations project, students in year 1 of the fashion program create free interpretations of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace, as well as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The creations explore what unites Nobel laureates, artists, and creators: creativity—the courage to think in new ways, to dare to question established theories, and innovative combinations of insights from different fields. The creations also give gala attire a new twist and show how special occasions, celebrations, and dignity can be expressed through 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/makeup: 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 have interpreted each award.
Peace – “Zenaida auriculata” interpreted 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 suppressed freedom. Gradually, the structure calms down at the waist and transitions to a smooth and harmonious surface, a movement toward peace and balance. At the neck, a drape is formed that ends in the silhouette of the pink eared dove (Zenaida auriculata), a symbol of hope and freedom. The dress tells the story of the journey from oppression to liberation, from darkness to light."
Economics – "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 development when older structures are reshaped.
"From the ground, the skirt spreads out like an aged system. The silhouette narrows in a smocked section, representing a phase where resources, ideas, and power are gathered and restructured. The upper part develops into a phoenix with feather details, expressing rebirth. The whole embodies how renewal takes place in stages: first decomposition, then concentration, and finally transformation in a new direction. The dress becomes a concrete interpretation of growth through transformation."
Medicine – "YoU" 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 concerning peripheral immune tolerance, which prevents the immune system from damaging the body.
"The movements of life flow within the body's inner landscape. Our design combines science, emotion, structure, and rhythm. At the heart of the work burns a rising sun which, together with the T-cell, the body's guardian, becomes a symbol of hope: a new chance and a story of a better life. The shifting surfaces represent a living, constantly changing function. Inner life emerges 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, which, in the midst of the horror of destruction, maintains faith in the possibilities of art."
“A sculptural interpretation: a body balanced between order and collapse, anproduct design the crystallized remnants of a lost civilization, stillness amid movement. Sharp points bear traces of time and resistance, the fabric in the moment between fall and salvation; black velvet shapes 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 atoms that are randomly graded in a cloud of probability. We have worked with round volumes in different scales, from micro to macro. The garment has its own product design, not that of the body, which gives a feeling of confinement. The silhouette depicts a closed formation, as if one were behind a barrier. Like quantum phenomena, cascades of beads emerge through tunneling."
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 (MOFs)—materials in which metal ions and organic molecules are linked together to form crystals with enormous cavities.
"The silhouette represents an ongoing transformation. A process in which gas transforms into liquid product design 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."
