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Designer Kieu Viet Lien studied designing in Australia, graduated and continued her designing education in Canada for an additional two years. To further her study in design and fashion, she stayed in Paris for two years while attending designing school Esmod in France. After finishing her studies, she return to Viet Nam and established her [...]
A generation of young designers is confident that Vietnamese fashion will one day become popular abroad. Young ao dai designer Thuan Viet says the country is yet to have “a fashion industry.” “It will take at least 10-15 years before we develop that.” Viet, who has seen his stylized ao dais – the graceful Vietnamese [...]
Ngo Nhat Huy is a budding designer from Vietnam who aims to make it big in the fashion arena. He, inspired with the ‘hippy style’ of the Western world that prevailed in 1970s, has developed a new, innovative long dress for the teenage from the traditional long dress (Ao Dai).The designer created eye catching dresses [...]
The five national records made during the Hanoi Flower Street Festival 2009 will be announced at the King Ly Thai To statue, Hanoi, at 7:00pm, December 31. The HCM City-based Vietnam Record Book Centre or Vietkings said the organizing board and craftsmen who participate in the Hanoi Flower Street Festival have registered five records including: [...]
Duong Truong Thien Ly arrived at the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday morning, one of the latest contestants coming to this country for the Miss World Pageant. Wearing a blue ao dai and palm-leaf conical hat, Thien Ly attracted the eyes of many passengers at the airport. She looked very cheerful [...]
High School students wearing ao dai, the Vietnamese national costume. — AP Photo I have visited Vietnam on many occasions and one of the most beautiful sights is being greeted by Vietnamese women wearing traditional white tunics or ao dai, Vietnam’s national dress. On the streets of Hanoi or Ho Chi Min City, high school [...]
Model Pham Thi Ngoc Ha will represent Vietnam at the 20th Miss Model of the World contest for this year to be held from November 4 to 23 in China�s Shenzhen City. Ha, who is 1.74 m tall and boasts a 88 � 61 � 91 (cm) figure, was the Miss Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional [...]
as of 3pm yesterday, Duong has 4,288 votes, 41 per cent of the total, while Miss Columbia is in second place with 1,320 votes and Miss Zambia is in third place with 1,167 votes. The voting, now in the semi-final round, runs through November 1. The top 15 finalists, which will be announced on Sunday, [...]
Four-inch heels really do bond women together. I know that sounds trite, but let me explain. I was a con-testant in the Miss Vietnam Washington 2009 pageant. It was there that I realized my perceptions about pageants to be wrong. Coming into the pageant, I did not expect many contestants to be friendly or down-to-earth. [...]
Many poor bright girls in Thua Thien–Hue Province will soon receive financial support for continuing their education while others will get vocational training from a new charity that has been established by women in Hue. The Ao Dai (traditional long dress) Association, established last week, is now working to raise funds. “Our association has been [...]