The annual fashion show launched by Vietnam Pictorial’s publication, Dep magazine, won a prize at the second Fashion Asian Awards (FAA) 2011, in Dalian city, China on April 29.
The ninth Dep Fashion Show (DFS) “Dreaming” beat two other nominees, Japan’s “Miss Walkway Collection” show and India’s “Making the Cut” show, to win the prize in the category of Asian Top Fashionable Contest of the Year.
FAA 2011 awarded prizes in 19 categories to candidates from 12 countries and territories in the region including Vietnam, mainland China, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan (China).
Besides DFS, Vietnam also had nominees in the categories of Top Fashion Model and Top Fashionable Creative Design.
The first FAA was held in Hangzhou city, China in February 2009 with contestants from nearly 10 countries, who established the Asian Fashion Media Association (AFMA) with 17 communications agencies from eight countries including Malaysia, Japan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and China.
(VOV)
