Fashion show at Sofitel Hotel kicks off
the France Spring Festival in Hanoi

Nhandan Online- A fashion show named ‘Blue-White-Red’ held last night at the Sofitel Hotel in Hanoi opened the France Spring Festival in Hanoi.

Three Vietnamese young designers, including Truong Anh Vu, Vu Thu Giang and Vu Viet Ha introduced around 60 collections in three colour blue, white and red, which are the colour of French national flag.

All three collections, romantic and elegant ‘Blue’ of Anh Vu from Phuong Dong, with decorations of  Mong ethnic minority people’s brocade, pure ‘White’ of Viet Ha inspired from the Spring’s rain and impressive ‘Red’ of Vu Thu Giang inspired from red persimmon, are the combination of the Asian identity and classical but modern European style.

The fashion show, which was jointly organised by the Embassy of France, the French Culture Centre – L’Espace, Vietnam Textile Corporation (Vinatex) and the Sofitel Hotel, is one of the core activities of the France Spring Festival.

The France Spring Festival takes place from May 12 until June 30 with a large range of activities such as drama, contemporary dance, cinema, painting and music.  

The film ‘Anthony Zimmer’ will be screened during the event.

Addressing at a recent press conference in Hanoi, Cultural Attaché Hubert Oilé, director of the L’ Espace, said the first France Spring Festival in Vietnam was the cultural exchange between Vietnam and France through performance arts and exhibitions of designers and artists aiming at creating a cultural space of combined identities and a bridge between the tradition and modernity, between east and west.

He also informed about multi-media exposition ‘Moving Hanoi’; visual art and illustration Loustal; and visual art, cartoon and video named ‘Faces of Hanoi’ from around May 15 to 30 at the L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien street and the Hanoi Fine Arts University, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi.

An electronic music performance Bumcello on May 29, contemporary dance and hip-hop performance Pockemon Crew on June 2, contemporary dance Fable of La Fontaine on June 13 and 14 and oriental electronic music High Tone on June, all taking place at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre at 11 Ngo Thi Nham street and particularly the Music Festival at L’Espace on June 21 will introduce the latest trend of music of France as well as prove the smooth co-operation in art between Vietnamese and French artists.

Also under the framework, typical French films will also be on screen at L’Espace and the Vietnam Cinema Association at 51 Tran Hung Dao street on June 23, 28, 29 and 30.

L’ Espace director Hubert Oilé also announced that from now the France Spring Festival will be organised once every two years, alternately the year without Hue Festival celebration in which France has been an important partner so far.

By DIEU THUY