KVT – Two Gowns to Totally Die for
KVT in fashion mode
Two cultural events this week featured fashion creations that go right to the ultimate top of the pops….two excellent pieces of art.
On Tuesday night at Goethe I was totally blown away with the white construction installed by Lai Thi Dieu Ha. I thought it would have no competition in the dress of the year stakeS
On Thursday night I was at the Opera House for the Swedish sponsored night with the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra and specifically to catch excellent, local violinist Nguyen My Huong solo in Saint-Sean’s Violin Concerto No 3.(an opinion piece on her very beautiful performance later!)
From my perch in the front row of the horse shoe I looked down before the show started and saw Laura and Diego, from the fashion house of Chula, entering. Hard not to spot Laura in her Chula outfit.
Soon I knew why
After Ravel’s short but lovely ‘Pavane for a Dead Princess,’ the stage was set for the main event and, from the wings and through the first violins entered Huong in a beautifully audacious Chula creation that left us all speechless with admiration.
Audacious because to wear such a gown meant that she had to play the concerto above and beyond its statement.
And she did! And those flamingoes seemed to rise and slowly spiral up to the dome of Nha Hat Lon.
Wonderful!
A real Christmas Treat
PS: unfortunately I didn’t click the lovely Huong image. Credit it to Diego.
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… very pleasing to the eye and the mind… indeed…
both creations are very beautiful: one with its art shamanistic connotations and the second one — a secular poetry…