Yesterday evening was Amber Fashion, an annual charity event where F1 and the fashion world join forces.
Bernie Ecclestone's younger daughter, Petra, is a fashion designer and F1 drivers Button, Coulthard, Hamilton, Piquet, Rosberg, Liuzzi, Sutil, Vettel and Webber all modelled her clothing brand FORM.
(Work it Adrian baby: Our gang give Sutil a bit of a ribbing)
Rosberg is a bit of a pro at this and takes it all very seriously, as does Sutil, and so I and a gang of team press officers I was hanging out with hurled a lot of friendly abuse at them as the walked up the catwalk. Then their act was followed by a dozen beautiful models wearing Elizabeth Hurley Beach swimwear.
Liz was in the audience with Prince Albert, Bernie, Richard Branson, Princess Beatrice and David Walliams from Little Britain.
Sebastian Vettel is, I'm confident in saying, Germany's biggest Little Britain fan. After the event I searched for Seb to make an intro - Seb even went to see their live show in London two years ago. But alas I think he'd gone back to his hotel.
There was also an auction in aid of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Sir Elton wasn't present but his partner David Furnish was, and made an impassioned plea to the millionaires and billionaires in the audience to bid generously. There was a VVIP seated area where the royals and celebs were sat, facing a mere VIP for the drivers and yours truly. And then there was the supposed hoi polloi standing among the trees behind. In previous years the auctioneer had always found his bids coming just from the likes of Bernie, Vijay and Philip Green. This year I'm very pleased that others got in on the act - and a man who had been offered no seat spent about 100,000 euros on various lots. As soon as he's won his lots a girl would a arrive with a contract for him to sign. I did rather think at that point he should have been offered a seat.
It's tempting just to chuck in a low bid to make it look like you're a player, but I resisted this time. Bernie bought a luxury holiday to Turks and Caicos for 30 grand and then re-donated it, while someone seated in front of me paid 145,000 Euros for he and nine of his friends to dine with Elton John and David Furnish at their villa in Nice. The closest I got to sampling the goods on offer was when the lot for the world's most expensive perfume came up, served in crystal and gold bottles - his and hers. Models came and wafted the perfume - Clive Christian No.1 - in our direction. I'm not sure if I got his or hers, but I wouldn't spend the 23k some guy sat behind me did. Then again, to hold onto the two girlfriends he had I guess he's got to spoil them.
After a Martini cocktail reception following the fashion show, I got picked up by my friend Gab in his pretty smart Skyline GTR and we went and parked up outside the Hotel de Paris, where crowds gather just to take photos of all the cars. The Skyline was a popular draw. It's also an amazing place to people watch, as dinner guests emerge from old school Rolls Royces and the latest Ferraris, some of whom have had so much plastic surgery it's simply tragic.
I dined on a yacht last night that had been chartered by some friends of Gab, including former F3000 driver Viktor Maslov. It's always a bit of a treat to dine on the deck of a gin palace, bobbing in Monaco harbour. Coming had been a last minute decision for these fun loving Russians as they had only decided the day before to rent to 30 metre vessel and take it to the grand prix. Quite amazingly, the harbour master had space for them, which really does confirm what everyone's saying - Monaco is a victim of the recession.
(Ex-F3000 driver Viktor Maslov, sat on the floor, is now a successful businessman)
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