The National Museum in Stockholm is starting to collect Swedish fashion items. The collection will be dedicated to clothing from 2000 onwards, and will, according to the museum, hold a "high artistic work height".
The criteria also mention that the clothes must come from a company or a designer who is active in Sweden.
Will monitor form and design"Nationalmuseum's responsibility is to monitor form and design and we see that fashion has become an important and obvious part of this area," Nationalmuseum Superintendent Susanna Pettersson said in a press release.
The collection is created without state funds and will thus depend on donations of money or physical garments.
The fashion collection has already begun to take shape, including with a dress by Martin Bergström, and five dresses that Sara Danius wore meanwhile as a permanent secretary in the Swedish Academy, designed by Pär Engsheden.