Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups living together.

Each ethnic group has its own cultural characteristics, there are different exchanges and acculturations to shape its own identity in each historical period that culture wears as an aspect of expression. The last scientific seminar was the first important event of the institute. We have made notes and discussions about the Cham's wearing culture in the process of meeting with the costumes of ethnic minorities, about the costumes of the Chinese in Ho Chi Minh City, the costumes of the Khmer in the South. , and about the history of Vietnamese ao dai.

During the upcoming operation, the institute will expand research and publish more materials. We hope that whenever the research is published, it will continue to receive additional sources of additional materials from the Vietnamese community of ethnic groups at home and abroad. In addition to the archaeological data of researchers, there are still families who preserve old costumes or jewelry as souvenirs of previous lives. Sometimes it will be the material to reinforce, or criticize. This is also to provide more basis for further research, and to evaluate, discuss and revise research results.

We want to be a centralized place, providing reliable materials about costumes for those who want to learn, then there are places to look, including movie producers, production of yard programs. stage, television, festival organization ...; designers, fashion businesses, especially serving the trend of innovative clothing creation but based on traditional ethnic costumes.