Anna Sueangam-iam, Miss Thailand is making quite a headline across the globe despite the Miss Universe pageant kicked off only this week. She stunned the audience with her dress made out of soda tabs during the evening gown round. Social media went crazy racking up more than 150,000 likes on her Instagram account.
Known as “Hidden Precious Diamond Dress”, it was designed by combining aluminium soda cans pull-tabs and Swarovski crystals. The dress was the creative product of a designer brand, Manirat. The pull tabs of the soda cans were used to pay tribute to Anna Sueangam-iam hardship childhood upbringing.
Image | Anna Sueangam-iam’s Instagram
Beauty with brain – Anna Sueangam-iam
“My parents were garbage collectors. My childhood was surrounded by garbage and recyclables. This dress that I am wearing is to represent to the universe that those items considered worthless by many actually have their own value and beauty”
Graduated with first-class honour (gold medal) from the faculty of liberal arts and science, Kasetsart University, she is indeed a definition of beauty with a brain.
Anna Sueangam-iam was born and raised in a slum in Bangkok, according to her official Miss Universe bio. To ensure she was protected from harm, her parents sent her to live with Buddhist nuns at the temple where she grew up and survived under the temple community.
