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Fashion Expert: Sober and Understated

Sophisticated, stylish and relatively subdued. This is how fashion expert Frida Zetterström describes Queen Silvia's and Crown Princess Victoria's dresses.

» Published: December 10 2024

Fashion Expert: Sober and Understated
Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

The royal family, who recently experienced a death in the family, has this year chosen a more subdued style than we are used to in Nobel contexts. Queen Silvia is wearing a midnight blue dress that receives top marks from fashion writer and stylist Frida Zetterström.

It's incredibly stylish, I must say. She has a talent for dressing both soberly and modernly at the same time. I also appreciate that the queen is reusing a dress she has worn before. It feels both modern, sustainable, and completely right for the times.

On her head sits one of the royal treasury's most precious gems, the Leuchtenberg sapphires.

Crown Princess Victoria's dress, designed by Christer Lindarw, is a combination of tulle in several layers of light pink, gray, and black.

It makes the dress shift in color and appears almost plum-colored in certain lighting. Nice with bare shoulders on such a sober and subdued model of dress, says Frida Zetterström.

No Surprises

The royals in the front row, Princess Madeleine and pregnant Princess Sofia, have taken a slightly more colorful approach with a cornflower blue and green sequined dress, respectively, but even those dresses are quite classic in their cut.

There are no surprises this year, but Princess Madeleine makes a dazzling Nobel comeback in sparkling green in an off-the-shoulder model. It's incredibly beautiful, says Frida Zetterström.

Princess Sofia's cornflower blue dress comes from the Danish designer Søren Le Schmidt.

It suits her perfectly. The draping over the shoulders and on the upper part feels both luxurious and so incredibly beautiful that the pregnant belly is highlighted, says Frida Zetterström.

Busch Magnificent

Among the ministers, two stood out: the Christian Democrats' party leader Ebba Busch and Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand, who had chosen the same color scale – fuchsia-pink.

Here, they haven't held back. Ebba Busch's tulle creation is magnificent, this feels playful and fun.

Ebba Busch's dress is created by Charlotte Backryd and is made of old fabrics and recycled stones.

We see how more and more fashion designers are choosing to design party clothes from fabrics that have previously been used in other contexts, which is an excellent way to work sustainably, says Frida Zetterström.

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