When you leave an interview with a fashion designer with a custom-fit, skin-tight, red jumpsuit you can ill afford in addition to the quotes you were after, said designer is more than just good. She is most likely ‘confident, a bit edgy and chic’ as per her description of her fashion line.
Designer Hà Truong is certainly that and, as it turns out, a bit more. & Of Other Things met Hà at her flagship store on Xuan Dieu not to talk about fashion, but music. Hà, it turns out, djs in the preciously little spare time she has – cramming being the founder of two fashion labels into just nine months (three months of each year are spent abroad) alongside raising two sons.
Hanoi fashion designer Hà Truong
It is only understandable that Hà does not spin her records for just anyone. This Saturday she is part of the all-female line up at Hanoi Rock City’s Women’s Day Night: “I think Hanoi Rock City is one kind of a place. They welcome very intelligent, creative people. It’s a place for people like me, for people who want to do things differently you know, to just be,” she says.
“No one plays what I play, just music that makes you dance. It doesn’t need a name. My music is like fashion, it is just fashion: you listen to it it’s cool it’s fun.”
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Hà laments that her style of music is not really played in Hanoi where the music according to her “is either really crap, like Vinahouse or really boyish, like they play house, deep house, techno, reggae, very boy.” It is just a bit of dancing she is after and promises the audience this Saturday: “Anything Indie electro – cool music. No one plays what I play, just music that makes you dance. It doesn’t need a name. My music is like fashion, it is just fashion: you listen to it it’s cool it’s fun.”
It is not for herself that she has agreed to play but in honour of all the ladies on 8 March. Women’s Day has no particular importance for Hà herself, but she does see a certain place for it “because people forget and people need it, but it should be every day you know. But because that is impossible it’s a good idea [to celebrate Women’s Day].”
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