Designer of the Year

Meet Vo Viet Chung, Vietnam’s award-winning ao dai designer and UNESCO honoree Vietnamese fashion was given new recognition last August with an unprecedented international award bestowed on local designer Vo Viet Chung, one of the country’s foremost innovators in fine traditional garments. At Leonard Simpson’s Fashion Forward awards ceremony held in the US at the … Read more

Woman Behind the Scenes

Meet Dieu Han, a countryside girl turned beauty queen and fashion designer Dieu Han is a golden-eyed lioness of a woman. She has a firm, intent gaze, a commanding frame and a character that rings of authority. It can probably be said that she was born to do business and lead others—and there’s really only one thing … Read more

Vo Viet Chung deconstructs the traditional ao dai

If you were watching the 2015 New York Couture Fashion Week earlier this year, you’d probably have been intrigued by the sole Asian collection featured out of those 300 that were showcased at the event. Vo Viet Chung, who is popularly thought of as Vietnam’s foremost ao dai designer, presented a total of 30 jet-black … Read more