Le Vi currently lives with her husband and children in a 4,000 m2 garden house of her family in Amboise city, France. Meritorious Artist Le Vi went to France in 2003. After giving birth to her second child, she returned to Hanoi and then went to France again in 2006.
Having settled in France for 20 years, Meritorious Artist Le Vi recounted that she still always misses Hanoi, misses her family and tries to arrange to visit home every Lunar New Year.
In a conversation with Lao Dong reporters, Le Vi recounted that she loves ao dai very much, and is often "given" a lot of ao dai by NSND Le Khanh, tailored from silk, traditional straight style.
There is a special photo on NSƯT Le Vi's personal page, when 3 sisters Le Van - Le Khanh - Le Vi are wearing ao dai, standing at the corner of Phan Dinh Phung street with many memories.
The childhood of the 3 sisters is associated with the house on Phan Dinh Phung street. Every time she comes home, Meritorious Artist Le Vi often invites her 2 older sisters Le Khanh - Le Van to wear ao dai and go to places full of family memories to take souvenir photos.
Talking about the special photo, Meritorious Artist Le Vi said: "It was around 2018-2019, I suggested that the sisters sew ao dai like the old days, then the 3 sisters wore them to take photos. At that time, Ms. Le Khanh was acting in the play "Quẫn" by Mr. Tran Luc. Ms. Khanh said that the play used traditional ao dai costumes as I was "drawing".
Ms. Le Khanh immediately called Mr. Tran Luc, borrowing ao dai from the play. We sisters immediately had a beautiful ao dai photo set.
When I posted photos on my personal Facebook, many people came to praise the beautiful ao dai. I also realized that from then on, the loose-fitting ao dai was very popular, becoming a new trend in the life of Ao Dai making in Hanoi.
According to Meritorious Artist Le Vi, she loves the gentleness, elegance, gentleness and discreetness of ao dai. In her wardrobe, she always has many ao dai sets with different colors.
“Before, when I was living in Hanoi, I was afraid to wear ao dai, because wearing it made me feel... older. But when I went to France, I loved ao dai, liked wearing ao dai every occasion. I wore ao dai to welcome guests to homestays. Then, I wore ao dai to take photos in my home garden. Guests will immediately recognize me as Vietnamese, they greet me warmly and tell me how they just came to Vietnam for tourism, how beautiful and hospitable Vietnam is... At that time, I was happy and very proud. Many guests who had not been to Vietnam still recognized me when they saw me wearing ao dai, and they said, they would definitely come to Vietnam one day” – Meritorious Artist Le Vi recounted.
According to Meritorious Artist Le Vi, when living in another country, when stepping out into the world, she loves Vietnamese features even more, Vietnamese quality in herself, and cherishes and preserves national culture even more.
Meritorious Artist Le Vi, born in 1968, is the youngest daughter in the family of People's Artist Tran Tien and Meritorious Artist Le Mai. Le Vi is the younger sister of People's Artist Le Khanh, Meritorious Artist Le Van. At the age of 10, Le Vi began to be taken to dance school by her parents. Her ability was revealed when she was trained by Russian experts in the 1980s. After graduating, she worked at the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet Theatre. Later, Meritorious Artist Le Vi returned to work at the Contemporary Art Theater.
In cinema, Le Vi also left many marks through the works "The Unknown White Birch", "The Yellow Lamp", "The Moon on Strange Land"...
Meritorious Artist Le Vi's husband is French – Mr. Cyril Lapointe. Mr. Cyril Lapointe used to study Cham culture, working at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Hanoi. Cyril Lapointe rented a house from Meritorious Artist Le Van, and met Meritorious Artist Le Vi there. They fell in love and got married in 2003. Currently, Mr. Cyril Lapointe is the mayor of Saint Règle City.
