Designer Phuong Ho (second from right) receives Guinness Vietnam Record for her longest ao dai in Vietnam on May 25.

This ao dai, called Non Song Gam Voc (Beautiful Homeland), is made from 410m of taffeta fabric and dozens of kilos of details of different kinds of materials. Designer Phuong Ho said it took her team of over 20 workers more than a month to complete the Ao dai. 

In late April, the ao dai was introduced at a fashion show in Phu Tho Province during the Hung Kings’ Temple Festival and the Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week of 2023.

According to designer Phuong Ho, she's going to show it in a charity programme which aims to raise funds for disadvantaged children in HCM City in June. Phuong Ho will also bring her work to the Look International Fashion Show 2023 due to be held in Thailand in July.

The Ao Dai will be divided into many small ones (approximately 100 ao dais) to introduce to the public. They will be auctioned to buy warm clothes for children in difficult circumstances. According to designer Phuong Ho, this is also a way for the Ao Dai not to be wasted as some people were afraid would happen.

"The flap, made from 31 pieces of brocade, features cultural and historic characteristics and landscapes of Vietnam and 3D images of lotus leaves," she said. “It is a great challenge for me and my team to complete the ao dai.” 

Designer Phuong Ho plans to create a new ao dai record made from brocade.

Tuan Chieu