Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh (born 1962), is a

fashion design Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction, and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by diverse cultures and different trends and has varied over time and place. "A fashion design ...

er and school director.Giving Fashion an Ethnic Spin
''Asia Week'', September 19, 1997 She is a director of the Vietnam Fashion Design Institute (FADIN) in Ho Chi Minh City, and is leading figure in Vietnam's new fashion industry.Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh
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Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...

, Vietnam. Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh was born in 1961 in

Pleiku Pleiku is a city in central Vietnam, located in the Central Highlands region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province. Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or De ...

, and was raised in

Huế Huế (formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province) is the southernmost coastal Municipalities of Vietnam, city in the North Central Coast region, the Central Vietnam, Central of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country. It borders Quảng ...

, Việtnam. She specialises in hybridising traditional designs with modern clothing. Her work has been shown abroad, and at a Tokyo fashion fair in 1997, she became the first Vietnamese designer to be awarded an international prize.

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* 1961 births Living people People from Gia Lai province Vietnamese fashion designers Vietnamese women fashion designers {{Vietnam-bio-stub