The annual Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival, with the theme "Vietnamese Ao Dai-Vietnam rising" takes place on Nguyen Hue Street, District 1. The festival will include a series of cultural activities, such as a parade of 3,000 women wearing Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai on the main streets of the city; the “Miss Ao Dai” beauty contest; an Ao Dai design competition; an Ao Dai photo contest; exhibitions of Ao Dai displaying designs of 53 fashion designers nationwide; an art street of Ao Dai at Lam Son Park, and the square in front of the Opera House of the city.