December 31, 2011
White H’mong girls In the high mountains of northern Vietnam, the H’mong are all set to celebrate their New Year next week. Vietnam’s eighth largest ethnic group is renowned for its colorful clothes and the New Year is an occasion for flaunting them. For the H’mong, in fact, clothes do make the man – [...]
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November 16, 2010
Miss Earth 2009 Larissa Ramos hands the Best National Costume award to Marina Kishira (R). Japan’s Marina Kishira was named winner of the Miss Earth 2010 National Costume competition on Saturday. Appearing in a black gown with images of flowers and water on the back and holding a fan with the image of the Japanese [...]
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January 17, 2010
The much vaunted ao dai has yet to come into its own at international beauty contests. Models perform in ao dai at the 21st Charming Vietnam Gala on New Yearâs Eve. The ao daihas always been the first choice of the nationâs female representatives at globalbeauty contests.The ao dai is more than a national dress.It [...]
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January 1, 2010
This year many Vietnamese men and women participated in international beauty pageants, but they treated investments in costumes lightly, especially in traditional garments. From the left: Chung Thuc Quyen, Huong Giang, Vinh Thuy and Hoang Yen in traditional costumes. Huong Giang, Vietnam’s contestant at the Miss World pageant, asked designer Son Collection to send two more [...]
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December 17, 2009
The Vietnamese supermodel will show off his sturdy beauty at the Mister International pageant’s traditional costume competition by wearing a traditional Vietnamese loin-cloth. Vinh Thuy said that he was very impressed with Tien Doan’s loin-cloth in the pageant last year so decided to wear a loin-cloth this year. His loin-cloth is designed by painter Thinh Tri, [...]
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October 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Three years is a long time to spend filming a documentary on “Vietnamese Costumes” but not when you consider it features 4,000 outfits. Director Nguyen Hai Anh.VietNamNet Bridge – Three years is a long time to spend filming a documentary on “Vietnamese Costumes” but not when you consider it features 4,000 outfits. Here [...]
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October 27, 2009
The Brahminical Cham community celebrates the Kate festival on the first day of the seventh lunar month to revere its gods, heroes, ancestors, and kings. Reverence: A procession re-enacts a legend at the Cham Kate festival.The biggest Cham population in the country, in the central province of Ninh Thuan, celebrates the festival at three towers [...]
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August 31, 2009
LookAtVietnam - Vietnamese model Chung Thuc Quyen won Best National Dress for her ao tu than (four-part dress) at the Miss Supernational 2009 pageant in Poland. Chung Thuc Quyen (right).LookAtVietnam - The Vietnamese model Chung Thuc Quyen won Best National Dress for her ao tu than (four-part dress), a traditional costume from the north of Vietnam, [...]
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August 8, 2009
Top: World Cosplay Summit contestants pose at a parade for the World Cosplay Summit Itâs not every day warlocks and battle-bots, space ninjas and kinky maids bump shoulders in a crowd, but then the Japanese youth cult of Cosplay is all about letting go of everyday life. A contraction of the words âcostumeâ and âplayâ, [...]
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July 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Troupes invested considerable sums on designing costumes for actors which often didn’t meet the high quality expected by critics. Costume drama: The tuong (classical drama) artists play Tran Quoc Tuan in Ha Noi.Despite costing considerable sums, many costumes used in historical plays were not designed appropriate to the period they represented.Costumes used in [...]
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