Cambodia Angkor Wat

I was so honored to be invited to the first fashion show ( and first show of any kind) in side of Angkor Wat.. Being a part of such an event with a designer like Andrea Kim was truly a surreal experience for me.. Andre Kim`s shows are always so dramatic, the music the clothes elegant and theatrical.. Being outside in a forest in the middle of Cambodia, Ankor Wat as a runway adds so much to us as models to delivering that perfect dramatic mood to the show!









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The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, represent one of humankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remains of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis whose other buildings - palaces, public buildings, and houses - were built of wood and are long since decayed and gone.

Angkor Wat, built during the early years of the 12th century by Suryavaram II, honors the Hindu god Vishnu and is a symbolic representation of Hindu cosmology. Consisting of an enormous temple symbolizing the mythic Mt. Meru, its five inter-nested rectangular walls and moats represent chains of mountains and the cosmic ocean. The short dimensions of the vast compound are precisely aligned along a north-south axis, while the east-west axis has been deliberately diverted 0.75 degrees south of east and north of west, seemingly in order to give observers a three day anticipation of the spring equinox.