Check out the new look Fashion Coffee By Huy Nguyen in HCMC Fashion Coffee has become an ideal rendezvous to combine a love of fashion and music thanks to owner, fashion designer Vo Viet Chung. Just 12 months ago, the cafe, located at 115 Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1, was a cramped, closed space divided into small sections decorated with vaporous lights. Now its interior is re-designed in a more open style, offering guests a cooler and more spacious venue. Meanwhile, well-known ao dai collections along with other outfits by Chung featuring traditional Vietnamese images remain the highlight of the shop. Chung sometimes displays new costumes he has designed for supermodels and foreign politicians. “I will turn this place into a catwalk with the presence of local models such as Chung Thuc Quyen, Kim Cuong and Tuyet Lan,” Chung said. Fashion Coffee is also attractive to guests with a unique music stage equipped with an acoustic music stage. With its new design, Fashion … [Read more...] about Check out the new look Fashion Coffee
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Old apartment buildings in Vietnam now bustling with cafés, fashion shops
In recent years, more people have chosen to open fashion shops, cafes, and restaurants in old apartment buildings in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Such shops have increasingly appealed to clients, particularly young people, with their striking interior design, good products, and service at affordable prices. The shops with their dazzling fronts have breathed new life and vivacity into old apartment buildings, which usually have a worn, messy look. Boutique-like décor, unique concepts The century-old apartment building at 14 Ton That Dam Street in District 1, where most residents are retirees or people working for stage agencies, is now home to seven or eight cafés and fashion shops. The cafés bear curious names such as Banksy, Mockingbird, Things, and The Other Person. The apartment building at 26 Ly Tu Trong Street, also in District 1, has also changed its face with several cafés, including Luth, Bong Cai Xanh, and La Fenêtre de Soleil - which was … [Read more...] about Old apartment buildings in Vietnam now bustling with cafés, fashion shops
Getting real
First-time director Siu Pham is betting that everyday moviegoers will relate to the authenticity and realism of her new art-house film Siu Pham said she just pursues her own path, no matter how hard it will be or how great the risk of failure is and she is also not like local young filmmakers who want to gain a foothold in the industry … [Read more...] about Getting real
HCM City to tighten control over artists’ appearance
Vo Trong Nam, Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the department has suggested many detailed solutions for the draft decree on performing arts, which will be submitted to the government in September. I'm worried when many more singers appear on the stage in scanty clothes and odd styles. Their talent has not ripened, so they have to make scandals by wearing odd and sensitive clothes…This is not simply the taste of artists but it shows their attitude and responsibility to the public. Some artists have been fined for this mistake, but why has the situation not improved? We have seriously kept track of and punished violations in performing activities in general and artists' mistakes in appearance in particular. All cases reported by the media were fined heavily, for example the cases of singer Ho Quynh Huong, models Bebe Pham and Ha Anh (they wore costumes that over-exposed sensitive parts of body). But HCM City is a big … [Read more...] about HCM City to tighten control over artists’ appearance
ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 11/12
Korean and Vietnamese speaking contest launched in HCM City The contest has provided Vietnamese people an opportunity to show their Korean speaking skills as well as giving a chance for students from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to speak Vietnamese friends' mother tongue. The final round of the competition was held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 10 with 25 Vietnamese and Korean contestants selected from 564 entries in the previous rounds. Nguyen Phuong Y, a Vietnamese student from the HCM City University of Social Science and Humanity, won the first prize in Korean speaking. She was offered a free-of-charge course for master degree at Soongsil University in the RoK. In the Vietnamese speaking category, Jang Eun Bee, who is studying at the Hanoi University, took the lead with an award worth US$2,000. The contest created an excellent venue for students from both countries to meet, exchange and increase mutual standing, as well as strengthening bilateral friendship. Body … [Read more...] about ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 11/12