Designer Camilla Thulin and tailor Reza Ismaili talk about the details behind Crown Princess Victoria's Nobel Prize Award dress.
The order from the court came six weeks ago. Since then, intensive work has been going on.
Camilla Thulin and her team discussed with Victoria and her stylist/chambermaid Tina Törnquist about what they had in mind, which colors and all that sort of thing. It's not just about making a dress, there are a lot of parameters you have to think about, wrinkle, that you have to be able to walk in it, move. And of course the customer must like both the model and the color, but above all it must be comfortable.
It is not only an honor to design Victoria's dress, but that it is also a different assignment. She cannot sit there with something that rubs. The Nobel party is a twelve-hour workday for her, it's her work clothes.
When Thulin produced a sketch of the dress, tailor Reza Ismaili entered the picture. And the last time has been intense for him to say the least. He says that he has worked more or less every day for six weeks and often twelve hours a day.
Reza Ismaili and Camilla Thulin have worked together for 18 years, but Ismaili believes that working on Victoria's Nobel dress has been extra special. Ismail said to Thulin that "this can't just be good, it has to be perfect" and he really put his whole soul into making it as good as possible.
Ismaili has woken up in the night in recent weeks and thought about the dress. And Victoria has tried it several times and expressed her opinions.
Ismaili came from Iran to Sweden 20 years ago. He was initially a little nervous to meet Victoria. And not least how he would address her. He tried to say the crown princess, but even though he has lived in Sweden for a long time and learned Swedish, it doesn't come naturally to say "the crown princess" and he ended up saying "du". But Victoria said that there were no problems, and that he could say "du". Victoria is one of the warmest people Ismaili has ever met.
The final details of Victoria's dress were completed as late as Friday evening, the day before the Nobel party.
Ismaili was with them at four o'clock last Friday afternoon and tried it on. Victoria said she wanted it a little tighter over the shoulders. So Ismaili stayed there and fixed the last details. He didn't have a sewing machine and sewed the last part by hand, it took two to three hours to finish.
Camilla Thulin is also satisfied with how the dress turned out, it's been great fun working together, and they are super happy with the result and all the happy calls they have received.
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