With the victory of Myanmar’s representative in the 69th Miss Universe finale, Asian countries have “dominated” the national costume award for nearly a decade.
At Miss Universe 2010, the representative of Thailand won this category thanks to costumes inspired by paintings and images of elephants. 
Miss Thailand Fonthip Watcharatrakul brought to Las Vegas a confident performance with a sophisticated national costume. In addition to the national costume award, Fonthip Watcharatrakul also won the most photogenic beauty award 
Two years later, the Chinese beauty brought to Miss Universe World one of the most unique designs in the history of the contest, which was a dress inspired by an antique vase by designer Guo Pei. 
The stylized skirt body is decorated with lotus, dragon and phoenix motifs that are both bold Chinese, graceful and sexy. 
Another representative of Asia, Indonesia, also entered the list of countries that won the national costume award of Miss Universe. In 2014, the beautiful Elvira Devinamira brought to the contest a dress weighing up to 20 kg, inspired by Borobudur temple – one of the world heritages 
Miss Thailand Aniporn Chalermburanawong won the 2015 contest with an outfit inspired by a tuk tuk – a familiar vehicle of the Thai tourism industry. After the national costume contest, the beauty also achieved the top 10 results in the end 
The representative from Myanmar topped the national costume contest of Miss Universe 2016 with a miniature puppet stage behind her back. 
In 2017, Miss Momoko Abe from Japan had an impressive “transformation” when she stepped on stage with a sexy ninja outfit, then quickly changed her graceful style in a traditional kimono outfit. 
Laos is the country that won the costume award at Miss Universe 2018. The beauty On-anong Homsombath brought to the stage a unique costume, inspired by a half-human, half-bird creature in this country’s folklore. The suit is rather bulky and elaborate with two golden mannequins on the front and back 
In 2019, another Southeast Asian country, the Philippines, also won the best national costume award with a giant eagle outfit. However, because of the confusion of the organizers, the Filipino beauty did not have the opportunity to present her national costume. 
In the final night of the 69th Miss Universe World held on May 17, Myanmar’s representative had a rather surprising victory in the national costume contest when performing a replacement suit after the failure. lost luggage. Candy Thuzar was also very brave when holding up the banner “Pray for Myanmar” in the complicated political context in this country.
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