Áo dài and "The Lover" inspired several international fashion houses to design ao dai collections, including Prada's SS08 collection and a Georgio Armani collection. In the Vietnamese film "The White Silk Dress" (2007), an ao dai is the sole legacy that the mother of a poverty-stricken family has to pass on to her daughters. The Hanoi City Complex, a 65-story building now under construction, will have an ao dai-inspired design. Vietnamese designers created ao dai for the contestants in the Miss Universe beauty contest, which was held July 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. The most prominent annual Ao Dai Festival outside of
The White Silk Dress in Hoi An as Dan is about to give birth to their first child who is named Hoi An. As the rain season begins, Dan holds her baby inside their flooded house. Suddenly, Gu fishes their ao dai which inside is the sprouted glosbe which used to be used for their wedding ceremony back in their hometown, Dan tells Gu to plant the glosbe so when it grows a big paddle of glosbe, she will be officially wife of Gu. The rain stops and the flood withdraws, Gu plants the glosbe in the garden in front of their house. More