For the 7/7/2007, I invited many of my friends from all over the world to meet in my home in Sommieres, South of France for a Brazilian party on the beach of Montpellier. Everyone arrived at my home then we drove to the beach and had lots of fun.

JULY 6th, 2007    -   LE MAS BLEU IN SOMMIERES, FRANCE

Diner the night before at home. From left: Dany from NY, Malia & Jeff from Hong Kong, Tom from LA, Herman & Claudia From Miami, Saeka from Japan, Debbie from LA. And yes… I cooked! 

The next day more people arrived, a total of 33 friends!! and 27 slept in my home!

JULY 7th, 2007

Our kids playing at the pool in the garden. (Noa, Rey and Angie)

At 6 pm everybody meets for the aperitif at home before going to the party 

Jerome & Flavie Causse from Toulouse, France. Jerome is my best friend in France, we met in Hong Kong in the nineties, he is the funniest guy on the planet. Jerome sells the new Airbus 380 and is responsible for the huge deals made in south Asia recently! 

Saeka, Riyo’s brother plays guitar next to Luciano from Italy. Luciano is the National Director of Miss Universe Italy and imports anything with an italian label from the design houses in Italy to the South American market. Luciano is also responsible for bringing the event of Miss Universe in Ecuador in 2004 and in Mexico in 2007.

Both French, Frederic from Paris and Olivier from New York. Frederic came to Tokyo and followed me for 3 days to produce a documentary called “Les Miss japonaises” (the Japanese misses) which was aired prime-time on M6, the French national television in a program called “66 minutes”.

Eduardo came from Santiago de Chile, South America. He is the winner of the longuest flight from all. Eduardo’s suitcases did not make it, and he went to buy an outfit in my little village for the party at night!     Eduardo and Luciano are business partners for years. 

Claudia from Miami and Erica from Tokyo. Claudia is Venezuelian, she designs high fashion jewlery and swimwears. She is extremely talented and she is so similar to me that we could have been twins in another life.

Erica is Australian and collaborates with me in Tokyo since 2004. She is the official nutritionist of the Miss Universe Japan competition. She has been a huge help for both Kurara and Riyo teaching them how to losse weight without loosing their muscle. Erica is a writer and publishes books about nutrition wich are sold worlwide. her best seller is ” A beautiful skin in 30 days”.

Olivier and Dany talking about movies, Dany (Wolf) is a famous Hollywoodmovie producer. He won the palme d’Or in Cannes 2 years ago with his movie called Elephant. We are friends for about 10 years, back when he was ’married” with supermodel Ling whom I represented in Asia while working for IMG Models. It is a real treasure to be his friend.

Everybody in the kitchen talking.

Below with Claudia and Valerio from Milan, Italy. Actually, we were in Mexico together when Riyo won. Valerio drove 6 hours from Milan during the busiest traveling day because of  the holidays, but he made it on time.

Stephane from Tokyo, flew in on that day from Roma, Italy where he was on a business trip to the Bvlgari heaadquaters. Stephane is French and Bvlgari President in Japan.

to be continued… with photos of the party held on the beach.