Fashion at Stockholm’s Nordiska Museet |

If you happen to be in Sweden for the Stockholm Fashion Week and have some spare time to wander around museums, try to go and visit the Nordiska Museet.

This museum offers the chance to get to know Sweden’s cultural history and features in its rooms many displays about traditions and customs, but also about interior design, fashion and accessories.

One of my favourite pieces on display is an orange evening dress by Yves Saint Laurent dated 1988 with a shocking pink corset and large shocking pink appliquéd birds flying on the long skirt (sorry for rather bad pic, but lights were very low in the costume gallery).

Other highlights include cabinets displaying shoes from the 17th century until the present day.

Here you will be able to find a wide range of designs, from embroidered slippers from the 1600s to Salvatore Ferragamo’s footwear from the 1940s and André Courrèges’s 1960 flat white kid leather boots with open toe (see last image in this post).

An interesting section of the museum is also dedicated to fashion magazines and posters and gives the chance to flick through many articles about Swedish fashion and designers.

The Nordiska Museet Flickr Photostream will allow you to see online some images of items or photographs that are part of its main collections.

The Photostream features quite a few pictures about history and traditions, but also about lifestyle and fashion, plus rather stylish photographs of models in outfits made by famous designers such as Dior and black and white adverts for exhibitions of photoprinted textiles at Stockholm's department store NK (1955).

The museum has also got a library with an efficient staff ready to help with all your enquiries and facilitate your fashion researches.