Silk Ao Dai painted by designer, artisan Trung Dinh has bold Vietnamese soul

Choosing Ao Dai as a “fulcrum” in the desire to revive the nation’s precious silk painting profession, which is in danger of disappearing, the success of designer, artist and artist Trung Dinh shows his right path when Ao Dai which he designed on a painted silk background “shows off” the sophistication, elaborateness and talent of traditional silk painting…

As a person working in the field of education who is not in the art world, but before worrying that the nation’s precious traditional silk painting job was in danger of disappearing, designer Trung Dinh immediately embarked on the design and trauma work. enjoy the profession of silk painting to retain this precious profession

A few days ago, Miss Global International 2019, Karolína Kokešová to Vietnam made a special impression when she arrived at the airport when she wore a Vietnamese ao dai. It is a gracefully drawn silk Ao Dai design, showing off the lovely curves of Karolína Kokešová and at the same time possessing the powerful aura of an international Miss with a transparent silk veil.

Before coming to Vietnam to attend an event, Karolína Kokešová expressed her love for Vietnamese ao dai, especially the silk ao dai painted by designer, painter, and silk artist Trung Dinh that beautiful Doan Hong Trang, Vietnam’s representative to Miss Global 2022, in a set of photos in Hoi An. Appreciated for the love of Miss Global World for the Vietnamese Ao Dai, designer Trung Dinh immediately designed an Ao Dai for Karolína Kokešová. Karolína Kokešová said that she feels more beautiful, feminine and charming when wearing Vietnamese ao dai.

For a long time, even though they did not promote or have big shows like other designers, in the world of Ao Dai fashion lovers, they have had a lot of respect for the silk Ao Dai painted by artisan Trung Dinh. That is because in modern life with a lot of rich and convenient imported materials to design ao dai, he still diligently researched and revived the nation’s silk painting profession, in order to blow into the ao dai. Pure Vietnamese beauty, making Ao Dai lovers feel very clearly the national soul on each shirt, every motif, design line.

In the collections introduced by designer Trung Dinh up to this point, he is loyal to the design of ao dai based on the traditional shape. Designer Trung Dinh said that the traditional ao dai shape of the nation has been distilled from the quintessential design and research over the years to best suit the body of Vietnamese women, so he wants to respect honor and preserve that beauty like preserving and developing silk painting. “Maybe in the future I will develop innovative designs suitable for more female body shapes, but, I will always prioritize designs with traditional shapes” – designer Trung Dinh shared.

With a traditional shape crystallized from the quintessence of the nation’s fashion culture, it is shown on the smooth silk material of the Vietnamese people with the hands, talent and mind of the silk artist, the shirt designs The length of Trung Dinh really has a rich Vietnamese soul and an extremely charming Vietnamese beauty.

Designer Trung Dinh shared, he is very grateful because this will help spread the beauty of painted silk ao dai as well as the characteristics of traditional silk painting craft to a large number of Vietnamese women as well as international friends.

Designer Trung Dinh’s ao dai works are taken from his wish and concern, which is that the craft of hand-painted silk in Vietnam has been in danger of disappearing. The starting point of silk painting is mainly for silk painting. However, in today’s modern life, silk painting is no longer popular and popular, so painters cannot live with the profession, gradually forgetting this profession. If this continues, one day the technique of silk painting will be just a memory. Unable to bear it, Trung Dinh tried everything to revive it, and succeeded in showing it on ao dai.

Silk painting is an extremely unique and complex craft of the Vietnamese people. With 100% silk material, woven in Vietnam, with a very meticulous, delicate and elaborate technique of drawing colors on silk, from a plain white silk strip, the artist will dye and change the color with craft for each work. To design the ao dai, designer Trung Dinh will continue to apply the ancient Vietnamese silk painting technique to put on the ao dai with realistic depiction. With the desire to combine the two fields of painting – fashion in the same cultural and artistic work, the themes of designer Trung Dinh often shown on ao dai are flowers, nature, scenery, beauty. The beauty of the country’s homeland is very poetic… Therefore, each of Trung Dinh’s Ao Dai works converges the quintessence of the cultural identity, imbued with the beauty of the soul of the Vietnamese nation.

Designer Trung Dinh was born in Phu Yen, in an intellectual family with 7 siblings, but no one is involved in art. He graduated with a degree in fashion from a regular university and is currently devoting himself to pursuing and developing the traditional Vietnamese profession: painting on silk and applying it to ao dai.

Ngan An