Thủy Design House

Quick facts

Thủy Design House at a glance

Behind the label

Thủy Nguyễn

Based

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Since

2011

Focus

Textile heritage

Makes

Áo dài and ready-to-wear; film costume

Trained

Studied painting in Ukraine; self-taught in fashion

The person and the label

Who is behind Thủy Design House?

Born in Hanoi, Thủy Nguyễn studied painting in Ukraine and taught herself fashion before opening her first Ho Chi Minh City store in 2011, Viet Nam News reported. She works in Vietnamese silk, satin and velvet and draws on Đông Hồ woodblock prints; she designed the costumes for the film Cô Ba Sài Gòn (The Tailor) and co-founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, which held a retrospective of her work in 2020.

Timeline

Thủy Design House, dated

1. 2011Opens her first store, in Ho Chi Minh City. Source ↗
2. 2017Her costumes feature in the film Cô Ba Sài Gòn (The Tailor), screened at the Busan International Film Festival. Source ↗
3. 7 November 2020A retrospective of her work opens at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre. Source ↗

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• PETER DO Ready-to-wear · since 2018
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• Kilomet109 Slow and sustainable · since 2012
• Sĩ Hoàng Textile heritage
• Chung Thanh Phong Couture and eveningwear · since 2013
• GIA Studios Ready-to-wear · since 2014
• BACH MAI Couture and eveningwear · since 2019
• Môi Điên Ready-to-wear · since 2016

Read the full Vietnam guide, with the method behind it and where to see the work in person.

Sources

Sources

1. Viet Nam News — Thủy Nguyễn’s fashion exhibition (November 2020) checked 22 October 2026

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