Designer Cao Minh Tien's "Bong Benh" collection is considered a visual symphony, where the heritage values of the Ancient Capital of Ninh Binh are recreated through a high-class fashion lens.
The name "Bong Benh" not only evokes the gentle movement of boats on the Ngo Dong River, but also the illusory feeling, the fog and smoke of the sky blending into the limestone mountain peaks in Trang An, Tam Coc - Bich Dong.
Each costume in the collection is a story telling about the connection between people and the sacred land. People will see in the costumes faint curved roofs, carved patterns of cloud clusters, typical lotus flowers in the ancient temple architecture stylized into costume shapes, creating solemnity but not losing its gracefulness...
Seeing there the shape of the Ninh Binh river, feeling the vibration of the water surface, the green moss strips hidden under the clear water are transformed into soft layered lines and duckweed, creating a visual effect as if drifting slowly.
In this collection, designer Cao Minh Tien especially prioritizes using the "treasure" of Vietnamese textile and garment villages, combined with modern surface treatment thinking, increasing the cultural value of the designs.
The collection uses materials including brocade, silk, buckwheat, and raw silk with elaborate and meticulous hand embroidery techniques to recreate images of white lotus flowers, blades of grass or winding clouds, creating a vivid and luminous 3D material surface.
Designer Cao Minh Tien said that "Bong Benh" is not simply about costumes, it is a thoughtful journey to bring viewers back to the quiet beauty of Trang An, where time seems to stop amidst the cheo rhythms and the pagoda bells echoing from the cliffs.
