Establish an Art Council to select State Costume designs
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just established an Art Council to select the State Costume model, consisting of 10 members, chaired by Meritorious Artist Vuong Duy Bien, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Vice Chairman of the Council is Associate Professor, Painter Le Anh Van, former Principal of Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
In addition, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism also decided to establish an Advisory Board and an Organizing Committee to develop and implement the State Costume Project.
The Advisory Board consists of 4 members: Prof. Labor Hero Vu Khieu, former Vice Chairman of the State Science Committee; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Lam Bien, Cultural Heritage Magazine, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Prof. Ngo Duc Thinh, former Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies; Historian Duong Trung Quoc, General Secretary of the Historical Science Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Past and Present Magazine.
The Organizing Committee for the development and implementation of the State Costume Project consists of 16 members. The Head of the Committee is Mr. Vi Kien Thanh, Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibitions, and the Deputy Head of the Committee is Ms. Doan Thi Thu Huong, Deputy Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibitions, along with 14 members.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the issue of formal dress has been raised for a long time but has not yet reached a consensus because a suitable model has not been found. The Ministry has assigned the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibitions to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to research and develop a project on State formal dress in order to reach consensus and find a common voice among experts.
Up to now, the Project has organized workshops to collect opinions from cultural researchers, designers and artists in Hanoi (December 21, 2012), Da Nang (April 18, 2013) and Ho Chi Minh City (April 17, 2013).
The majority of delegates agreed that ceremonial costumes need to be beautiful, simple, convenient, easy to use, suitable for the climate and body shape of Vietnamese people; need to use domestic materials; and have distinctive colors, representative of Vietnamese culture and people.
Many delegates believe that for women, the traditional dress should be the ao dai, and for men, the traditional dress should be a vest. Some opinions suggest choosing the traditional dress for both men and women, but the traditional dress for men needs to be reformed to suit the current era…
Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Vuong Duy Bien said that ceremonial costumes contribute to expressing the cultural identity of the country. Vietnam needs to affirm its own cultural identity in costumes at State-level diplomatic events. Designing ceremonial costumes to affirm the national identity and independent position of a national culture is a very necessary task...
According to (Chinhphu.vn) - LT
