On the evening of March 7, the 10th Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival 2024 officially opened at Nguyen Hue walking street (District 1). Attending the program were Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Vice President; Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Ms. Phan Thi Thang, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade ; Ms. Tran Lan Phuong, Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union and leaders of foreign diplomatic offices and agencies in Ho Chi Minh City...
The Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival also received a Vietnamese record for being the festival promoting Vietnamese Ao Dai that has been held the most consecutively (10 times from 2014 to 2024).
On the opening night, locals and visitors enjoyed an art program and admired collections of 800 outstanding ao dai designs that were elaborately crafted with the participation of 22 artists, celebrities, beauty queens, runners-up... as image ambassadors for the festival.
In particular, the Ao Dai performance "The Beauty of Vietnamese Ao Dai" performed by female Consuls General and their wives contributed to strengthening the friendly cooperation between countries, spreading the beauty of Ao Dai to international friends.
This year's Ao Dai Festival has many new features, exhibition spaces and many interactive activities with Ao Dai have been opened. The message of the Ao Dai Festival is expanded in scale with a series of attractive activities, highly experiential, to continue to make the festival a tourist product that attracts visitors.
This year's Ao Dai Festival has many new features, exhibition spaces and many interactive activities with the Ao Dai have been opened.
The stage design is elaborate and creative, creating a difference in decoration style and content compared to previous festival seasons.
Speaking at the opening event, Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, said that with the 10th time being held, the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival has received the response of hundreds of tailors, shops - Ao Dai businesses in the activities... Most special is the response to the festival activities from people living and working in Ho Chi Minh City as well as domestic and foreign tourists.
"These spreading waves not only arouse love for the ao dai but also bring honor to the spirit of national pride, pride in the beauty of the homeland of Vietnam," Mr. Nguyen Van Dung shared.
The tourism ambassadors are familiar faces from different fields but all share a love for the traditional national ao dai.
The main activities of this year's festival will tell the story of the Ao Dai for all genders, all ages and suitable for many environments and circumstances.
The 10th Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival takes place from March 7 to March 17 with many unique and outstanding activities at locations such as President Ho Chi Minh Monument Park and Nguyen Hue Walking Street, Lam Son Park, Youth Cultural House, Ao Dai Museum...
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