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		</div><h6><span style="color:#120101;">Viewers are treated to a fest of national costumes at the 2017 edition of the Miss Universe pageant on Monday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#120101;">Miss France, 24-year-old Iris Mittenaere beat Miss Haiti [Raquel Pelissier] and Miss Colombia [Andrea Tovar], First and second runner-ups to clinch Miss Universe title</span></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134241" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-france-iris-mittenaere1.png" alt="Miss France, Iris Mittenaere1.png" width="762" height="439" />Miss France Iris Mittenaere was crowned Miss Universe 2017</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134284" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-universe-2017-miss-france-iris-mittenaere-in-national-coustume1.jpg" alt="Miss Universe 2017 - Miss France, Iris Mittenaere in national coustume1 .jpg" width="780" height="438" /><br />
<strong>Miss Universe 2017 &#8211; Miss France, Iris Mittenaere in national costume</strong></h6>
<p>Philosophical, yet resplendent in her gold-sequined gown,, 24-year-old dental surgery student Iris Mittenaere beat 12 other finalists to take the crown at the 2017 edition of the Miss Universe Pageant. As Miss Universe, she will be campaigning for dental and oral care around the world.<br />
&#8220;This sash is not only a sash,&#8221; said Mittenaere, who is from Northern France, in a Miss Universe interview after the pageant. &#8220;This is something to help people, to understand people.&#8221;<br />
Iris Mittenaere beat Miss Haiti [Raquel Pelissier] and Miss Colombia [Andrea Tovar] to clinch Miss Universe title</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134287" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-universe-2017-miss-france-iris-mittenaere-and-1st-runner-up-miss-haiti-raquel-pelissier1.jpg" alt="Miss Universe 2017 - Miss France, Iris Mittenaere and 1st runner-up Miss Haiti, Raquel Pelissier1.jpg" width="780" height="438" />Miss Universe 2017 &#8211; Miss France, Iris Mittenaere [right] and 1st runner-up Miss Haiti, Raquel Pelissier [left]</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134277" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/jenny-kenny-miss-south-korea1.jpg" alt="Jenny Kenny, Miss South Korea1.jpg" width="780" height="438" />Jenny Kim, Miss South Korea in her national costume</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134178" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/keity-drenan-of-panama1.jpg" alt="Keity Drenan of Panama1.jpg" width="1030" height="690" /><strong>Keity Drenan of Panama in national costume</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134210" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/zari-nakzawa-of-japan1.jpg" alt="Zari Nakzawa of Japan1.jpg" width="1033" height="688" />Zari Nakzawa of Japan</h6>
<p>The top finalists representing Kenya, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Philippines, Canada, Brazil, France, Haiti, Thailand and the U.S. displayed a colorful range and imaginative, if sometimes extravagant outfits.<br />
They contestants in the Miss Universe pageant, meant to showcased a puzzling array of outfits, micro expose′s of national cultures, best left to the interpretation of the viewers.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134202" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/deshauna-barber-of-the-united-states1.jpg" alt="Deshauna Barber of the United States1.jpg" width="1033" height="678" />Deshauna Barber of the United States</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-134205" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/li-zhenying-from-china1.jpg" alt="Li ZhenYing from China1.jpg" width="669" height="1051" />Li ZhenYing, Miss China was quite elegant in her outfit</strong></h6>
<p>For this year’s preliminary event, Miss Sweden Ida Ovmar portrayed a sexy milkmaid with Pippi Longstocking, the childrens fairytale character, created by the late Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who has a knack for hoisting horses above her head.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134188" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/noelia-feire-of-spain1.jpg" alt="Noelia Feire of Spain1.jpg" width="1033" height="688" /><strong>Noelia Feire of Spain</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134191" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/brenda-jimenez-of-puerto-rico1.jpg" alt="Brenda Jimenez of Puerto Rico1.jpg" width="1033" height="681" /><strong>Brenda Jimenez of Puerto Rico &#8211; strutting peacock</strong></h6>
<p>Miss Myanmar Htet Htet Htun made her costume appearance as a complete puppet show come-to-life, with a wide stage and haunting greenery. Rather than strutting down the runway, she plopped down, opened up her curtains and performed a traditional Burmese dance that looked like a version of the “the robot,” with a puppeteer pulling the invisible strings.<br />
Miss Vietnam, He Lang, was vision of a peasant fisherman emerging from a forest of oblong baskets</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134281" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-vietnam-he-lang1.jpg" alt="Miss Vietnam, he Lang1.jpg" width="780" height="438" />Miss Vietnam, He Lang</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134177" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ida-ovmar-of-sweden1.jpg" alt="ida-ovmar-of-sweden1" width="1033" height="689" />Ida Ovmar, Miss Sweden. The milk maid character hoists her horse above her head</h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134195" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/htet-htet-htun-of-myanmar1.jpg" alt="Htet Htet Htun of Myanmar1.jpg" width="1022" height="690" /><strong>Htet Htet Htun of Myanmar and her mobile puppet show</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134198" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/johanna-acs-of-germany1.jpg" alt="Johanna Acs of Germany1.jpg" width="1033" height="689" /><strong>Johanna Acs of Germany wore a replica of a castle as a headdress</strong></h6>
<div>Miss Germany, Johanna Acs wore a rather unique headdress in contrast to the<strong> </strong>turbans, hats and headdresses worn by other contestants Ms Acs was saddled with a miniature Neuschwanstein Castle, the pad where the “Ring” cycle composer RIchard Wagner once lived.<br />
Miss Dominican Republic Sal Garcia, meanwhile, looked like a tropical Technicolor version of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Flocking gorgeous!</div>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134214" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/andrea-tovar-of-colombia1.jpg" alt="Andrea Tovar of Colombia1.jpg" width="1012" height="690" />2nd Runner-up <strong>Andrea Tovar of Colombia</strong> in national coutume</h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134218" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rebecca-kathleen-rath-from-belize1.jpg" alt="Rebecca Kathleen Rath from Belize1.jpg" width="1033" height="689" /><br />
<strong>Rebecca Kathleen Rath from Belize </strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134221" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/kezia-warouw-of-indonesia1.jpg" alt="Kezia Warouw of Indonesia1.jpg" width="1033" height="688" />Kezia Warouw of Indonesia</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134298" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-universe-2017-contestants1.jpg" alt="miss-universe-2017-contestants1" width="780" height="438" /><strong>Miss Universe 2017, contestants appear in swimsuit </strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134297" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miss-universe-2017-contestants2.jpg" alt="miss-universe-2017-contestants2" width="780" height="438" />Miss Universe 2017 contestants strut the stage in ball gowns</strong></h6>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The pageant changed its format this year; it had 12 instead of 13 finalists, and counted online votes from the Miss Universe app and Twitter.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The contest also welcomed some first-time entrants like Sierra Leone represented by Hawa Kamara, 2013 Miss West Africa. Miss Canada, Siera Bearchell, also made headlines for taking on trolls who body-shamed her for her size.</div>
<h6 class="zn-body__paragraph"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-134334" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/hawa-kamara-miss-sierra-leone1.png" alt="Hawa Kamara, Miss Sierra Leone1.png" width="674" height="838" />Hawa Kamara made history as the first woman from Sierra Leone to compete in Miss Universe</strong></h6>
<h6 class="zn-body__paragraph"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134304" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/siera-bearchell-miss-canada2.png" alt="Siera Bearchell, Miss Canada2.png" width="619" height="693" /><br />
<strong>Miss Canada, Siera Bearchell used social media as a platform to take on body shamers who attacked her size, to encourage body diversity</strong></h6>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The annual pageant was held on Monday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines. Host Steve Harvey joked on the show that he got the winner right this year, after last year&#8217;s snafu of getting it wrong. Rapper Flo Rida and R&;B group Boys II Men provided entertainment.</div>
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Kaleidoscope of national costumes at Miss Universe pageant as Miss France, 24-year-old Iris Mittenaere is crowned winner of 2017 edition
