MODEL OF THE MOMENT

Singapore Fashion Festival 2007 is committed to bringing festival-goers some of the world’s top models and is proud to annouce that Ai Tominaga, one of the world’s leading runway models, and Anne Watanabe, one of the hottest rising stars in the international model scene, will grace the Festival catwalks.Born in Tokyo, Anne is just 22 years of age. She has appeared in campaigns for Anna Sui and has walked the runways for Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfilger, Louis Vuitton, Viktor & Rolf, Aigner and Karl Lagerfeld to name just a few. Anne is the daughter of Japan’s most successful actor of recent times, Ken Watanabe.

Tall and elegant, Ai has appeared on the runway for some of the world’s leading designers from John Galliano, Vivienne Tam, Christian Dior, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, and Valentino, among others. An editorial regular, she has appeared in many magazines including Vogue (American, French, British, Japanese, Russian and German) and iD and been shot by influential photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Nick Knight and Steven Meisel. Ai has been featured in campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci and Banana Republic.SFF07 has become a beauty “hot-house”, attracting many top Asian models to the catwalks over the years including Lu Yan and Chun Xiao (China), Ling (Malaysia) in her early career and Serene Chew (Singapore