W Singapore, becomes the Official Music Partner for the Audi Fashion Festival 2013.
Continuously at the forefront of Fashion, Music and Design, W Hotels Worldwide has sound tracked numerous fashion festivals from Bangkok to New York and worked with many immerging designers to infuse the passion points.
"Fashion is a key passion point for W" explains W Singapore General Manager, Stephane Fabregoul. "And the Audi Fashion Festival celebrates exactly that, in a spectacle of glitz and glamour. It's the perfect partnership of two like-minded brands."
W Singapore will be presenting the Audi Fashion Festival After Party at the Great Room at W Singapore on 17th May at 10.30pm with W Global Music Director, Michaelangelo L'Acqua to kick off the night. First discovered by Tom Ford and a New School Jazz & Contemporary Music Program alumnus, L'Acqua has produced music for major fashion brands such as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, John Varvatos, Jil Sander, Chanel, and Diane von Furstenberg; in over 150 shows across big fashion cities such as Paris, Milan, Berlin and New York.
As part of W Hotels' efforts in supporting emerging designers and providing them with a platform to showcase their works, W Singapore's AFF after party will set the stage for a Fashion New/Next Showcase, a high octane fashion show featuring outfits and vignettes from two of Singapore's brightest designers.
Headlining the party and flown in specially for this event by W Hotels Worldwide, up-and-coming American Hip Hop star, Azealia Banks will electrify the night at her first ever performance in Singapore lending her New York cool to the party. Azealia Banks has been described by Billboard as having "shaken up the blogosphere like a snowglobe." Her simple black and white video for "212 (featuring Lazy Jay)" has racked up nearly 30 million views since she posted it in the fall of 2011, propelling Azealia to the top of NME's Cool List and into the pages of The New York Times twice – months before her debut EP, 1991, had even been released. She was the face of designer Alexander Wang's T Fall 2012 campaign and the way she fuses street sensibility, iconic fashion and musical sophistication made her the natural fit to front W Singapore's collaboration with Audi Fashion Festival.
W Singapore, which opened late 2012, is ideally situated on the city's most glamorous island, only minutes away from downtown Singapore. A stylish, buzzing hang out for Singapore's trendsetters, business leaders and discerning world travelers, W Singapore is the glamorous addition to the city's luxury hotels category, with 240 guestrooms and suites showcasing spectacular marina and ocean views.