As a response to the third HCM City Áo Dài Festival, relatives of composer Trịnh Công Sơn are hosting a one-week festival which kicked off on Monday at Nguyễn Văn Bình Book Street in downtown HCM City, honouring a collection...
Hundreds of representatives from 54 ethnic groups
throughout the country took part the opening ceremony of the National
Great Unity – Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Week last night.
Viet Nam''s representative Pham Hong Thuy Van was
the third runner-up at the Miss International 2015, which took place at
Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday.
Visitors to the former imperial palace in Hue City
can now walk through the same halls once frequented by queens during the
Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945).
Designer Minh Hanh has won Japan''s Fukuoka Prize in
the Arts and Culture category, for her contributions to the development
of fashion at home and abroad.
A fashion show of ao dai, the traditional
Vietnamese long robe, was held in Berlin on Saturday with the
participation of Spanish designer Diego Cortizas.
A beauty contest to highlight women wearing ao dai
(Vietnamese traditional long dresses) will open the second Ao Dai
Festival in HCM City''s Dam Sen Cultural Park in District 11 on March 7.
Supermodel Tran Ngoc Lan Khue won the Miss Ao Dai Vietnam – Road to Miss
World Crown at the contest''s glitzy final in HCM City last night
(January 5).
Many people love the traditional Vietnamese ao dai (long dress) look,
but few have ever seen how the designs look when combined with beautiful
brocades copied from or made by the nation''s ethnic people.
