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Saythany district organises Hmong fashion show cum beauty contests
Saythany district organises Hmong fashion show cum beauty contests
(KPL) Thirty-two young Hmong women aged between 15 to 20 paraded in Lao traditional attire at a fashion-show cum beauty contest on the grounds of the Saythany district office in the evening of 28 November.
Every one of the contestants emerged singly from the wings of the stage to the catwalk and they all performed the same set of well-rehearsed movements to the judges, paid and unpaid audience, photographers and members of the press. This is a Lao catwalk. The movements of the Hmong women is a far cry from the women on western catwalks that one sees in the international fashion circuit in venues like Milan, Paris, New York and London. The Lao woman instructor taught the contestants to take small steps and to walk slowly on the T-shaped catwalk. Unlike the fashion models of the west, the Hmong women did not show off their boobs, the curves of their bodies, the “come up and see me some time look” on the faces and the brisk hand-swinging walk of their western sisters. In fact, the two-hour showcase of Lao female attire is like a slow motion dance. The contestants moved according to the cues given by the sole contestant parading on the catwalk.
As she retreated to the rear where the other contestants stood, a participant would walk out of the stage and a new one would step on the stage at the other end. The timing was perfect and the sequences so well orchestrated that the stage was never overcrowded and this enabled the audience to focus their eyes on the sole slow motion parader.
The choreographer of this show is a female academic of National University of Laos. Her dance-like show is basically a Lao cultural interpretation of the western catwalk. She had transformed the western-style performance into the Lao context – into the Lao way of doing things and in accordance to Lao customs and folkways. The choreographer is passing the message that the Lao women on the catwalk have to be self-effacing, modest, to be low profiled and to move in a slow motion manner.
On this day, the choreographer may have set the benchmark for other fashion parades in the country so that all future fashion parades in the country will adopt the Saythany district style. Is it Lao’s answer to the western style catwalks?
At the end of the first day of the two-day fashion-cum beauty contest, the judges selected 10 of the 32 contestants for the second day’s show of Hmong fashion clothes. The judges judged them on their physical beauty, catwalk presentation and speech. Miss Yer Veng , 16 emerged as the winner. The governor of Saythany district, Bounthong Phommachanh told KPL News said that the objective of the show is to promote the culture of the Hmong and he added that this is also applicable to the other ethnic groups.
(KPL) Thirty-two young Hmong women aged between 15 to 20 paraded in Lao traditional attire at a fashion-show cum beauty contest on the grounds of the Saythany district office in the evening of 28 November.
Every one of the contestants emerged singly from the wings of the stage to the catwalk and they all performed the same set of well-rehearsed movements to the judges, paid and unpaid audience, photographers and members of the press. This is a Lao catwalk. The movements of the Hmong women is a far cry from the women on western catwalks that one sees in the international fashion circuit in venues like Milan, Paris, New York and London. The Lao woman instructor taught the contestants to take small steps and to walk slowly on the T-shaped catwalk. Unlike the fashion models of the west, the Hmong women did not show off their boobs, the curves of their bodies, the “come up and see me some time look” on the faces and the brisk hand-swinging walk of their western sisters. In fact, the two-hour showcase of Lao female attire is like a slow motion dance. The contestants moved according to the cues given by the sole contestant parading on the catwalk.
As she retreated to the rear where the other contestants stood, a participant would walk out of the stage and a new one would step on the stage at the other end. The timing was perfect and the sequences so well orchestrated that the stage was never overcrowded and this enabled the audience to focus their eyes on the sole slow motion parader.
The choreographer of this show is a female academic of National University of Laos. Her dance-like show is basically a Lao cultural interpretation of the western catwalk. She had transformed the western-style performance into the Lao context – into the Lao way of doing things and in accordance to Lao customs and folkways. The choreographer is passing the message that the Lao women on the catwalk have to be self-effacing, modest, to be low profiled and to move in a slow motion manner.
On this day, the choreographer may have set the benchmark for other fashion parades in the country so that all future fashion parades in the country will adopt the Saythany district style. Is it Lao’s answer to the western style catwalks?
At the end of the first day of the two-day fashion-cum beauty contest, the judges selected 10 of the 32 contestants for the second day’s show of Hmong fashion clothes. The judges judged them on their physical beauty, catwalk presentation and speech. Miss Yer Veng , 16 emerged as the winner. The governor of Saythany district, Bounthong Phommachanh told KPL News said that the objective of the show is to promote the culture of the Hmong and he added that this is also applicable to the other ethnic groups.
