In the VietNam, I have known a lot of famous designers such as Cong Tri, Do Manh Cuong,... But I am very familiar with Ms. Minh Hanh, full name is: Dang Thi Minh Hanh, native of Hue, Vietnam is a fashion designer from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is the Director of the Vietnam Academy of Fashion Design in Ho Chi Minh City, she is a leading figure in the new fashion industry in Vietnam. Minh Hanh: Witch in black. By chance meeting some Southern journalists, I went to Chu Van An guesthouse to play with these men. Looming in the group of an artist, the skin is as white as fat, how can the people of Saigon be so white? And the face, surprisingly!
Having been used to seeing beautiful people "abundant" around me since I was a child, I am rarely surprised. Ben asked who is that beautiful? Journalist Nguyen Truong Xuan, newspaper Catholic and Ethnic, said: It is Minh Hanh, the artist presenting the City Women newspaper (HCM).
When she met for real, ten years later, she became a famous fashion designer. During the Tet newspaper season, Minh Hanh and painter Nguyen Van Vinh also made it difficult for colleagues presenting the Northern newspaper to compare Tet publications with each other. Marketing Saigons, Tuoi Tre, Lao Dong... through their sophisticated art design are a true masterpiece, a gift for overseas Vietnamese to bring back after eating Tet in their homeland.
Sometimes Minh Hanh sends invitations to fashion events where she is the boss. I hesitated and did not intend to respond with the impression that: "Anything" like this must be very arrogant, men swarm around and women have to try not to get jealous.
“To understand each other, I want you to doubt me so that one day you can believe it for sure. I don't want you to rush to believe me to become skeptical." It was not until 2008 when we met her again in Hoi An as a judge of Miss Vietnam that we stopped ignoring her. Actually, the first time I stayed at the magnificent The Nam Hai hotel, I just greeted politely and pretended to remember "I've met you more than once, been invited to a meal of Pac Bo Lam Rice on Au Co Street". Gradually, the events and incidents of this contest and the closeness of work - she was on the jury, I was on the organizing committee - changed the "worldview, human outlook".
Minh Hanh: Witch in black photo 1 Someone said: "Minh Hanh would be perfect if it wasn't domineering". A person who has been a pioneering designer and has a common mission is like a stone, shouldn't he have the right to change and often compromise? All decisions have to be made in an instant, even if you want to back down, it's hard.
Someone advised: "Just listen to Mrs. Hanh, she herself plays black and white for life, her black hair falls to her shoulders. Fashion isn't just that." If you have checked, you should look carefully. Those white shirts and black pants are nothing like each other, so are the jeans. Every detail on it is remarkable. Although, I also feel sorry for a color witch, worried about changing things for everyone but me.
Minh Hanh said her first and strongest feeling when observing the opposite person is color: Color in makeup, clothes. That color in that style and the combination with that skin, with that bag shows what kind of person a person is. (Europeans often judge the opposite person by accessories - such as shoes for men; handbags + shoes for women. Especially genuine leather - the first standard to judge an elegant person). "Color witch", "witch in black" is the nickname young colleagues call her.
Someone said: "Now is the time of young designers. Minh Hanh has been in the top position for too long, it's okay." Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 said of the profession of writing: “It is a work of self-respect. There are writers whose work no one else can write. It's not about the subject matter or the genre, it's the way they write - with a unique ego." The work of a designer is much simpler than that of a writer, but a person with a self-respecting career concept like Minh Hanh most likely has something in common with Morrison. Same long dress, jeans, brocade, evening dress but I'm different!
Recall, the rehearsal of the Ao Dai Festival at Hue Festival in April 2012. Quoc Hoc Beer at 12 o'clock at night, the street is quiet and hot. Minh Hanh said in a low voice because he shouted hoarsely during the day, pointed at each of the long dresses the model was wearing, any suggestions on adding flowers or other decorations, and then immediately removed the tassel, although it was beautiful, but already had it. who did…A lot of dissatisfaction in the timbre. Uncompromising straight dissection. The young designers were silent and could not say a word because... too accurate. The day after the official performance, the details of the previous night's surgery were adjusted, the Ao Dai Festival left an unforgettable emotion.
The next day, again, face to face the Eastern Night. Some foreign troupes rely on unique costumes, good music, and lively actors. Minh Hanh coldly: "Each group does not exceed 7 minutes! Cut all, no priority!" The groups grimaced and groaned. At that time and the day before and the next day, I found the design profession in general and the program director as hard as plowing! Minh Hanh often jokes: Every designer is the age of the buffalo!
Someone said: "It is difficult for Mr. Nghia's family (journalist Le Van Nghia - husband of Minh Hanh) to be at peace. Such a talented person." I have never seen anyone with a serious concept of love like Minh Hanh.
Someone said: "Who doesn't get out of Minh Hanh's sleeve, even with real talent, it's not easy to emerge and attend a big fashion event." I have not met people who are not suitable for that profession. But I have witnessed her take care of her juniors and students, from the details of her profession to the gift she brought back from a trip abroad or on the occasion of going to the South to the North, the year the New Year ends.
Last New Year's Eve, I asked: "What needs do I have to meet, the most New Year has arrived". Then she demanded a "money-killing" item from people, which was a really special bottle of shrimp paste, carefully wrapped to pass the customs. Vermicelli with shrimp paste is one of Minh Hanh's favorite dishes.
That's Minh Hanh. Demanding high from others in terms of understanding, culture, fine art, sincerity, and material things, she is the one who gives and does not receive in return. Is this easy to find in the chaotic world of showbiz? In general, it is not easy in any gender, anywhere.
When a reporter asked the longtime president of the Cannes Film Festival if he must have many friends in the artist world, he replied: "Artists don't have friends, they only know themselves. Like Gerard Depardieu, for example, he will look at you as if you were a grain of sand, a splash of water on the table. While I believe that friends should be the ones who share everything - life, money..."
Minh Hanh to me is an interesting example between speculation and truth. There are true and false speculations. There are truths like this today, different tomorrow. But one thing is for sure, I always regret having missed at least 10 years to get to know this special woman better.
So beautiful !
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