Luxury yachts and boats are moored in the port of Cannes. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13-24. Reuters

Plan your trip to the French Riviera with The LEAD Guide that details a very selective inventory of prestigious and unusual locations (hotels, restaurants, spas, art galleries and art villas, etc) of the French Côte d’Azur.

Published by a non-profit student enterprise - affiliated to the CERAM Business School of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France - the LEAD Guide is available in the private lounges of the Côte d’Azur Airports (Nice, Cannes and St Tropez).

It will also be sent to the exclusive yacht brokers, prestigious limousine and car renting agencies, outstanding golf resorts and renowned luxury real estate agencies around the area.

Résidence Supérieur is an extreme luxury concept designed by internationally known lifestyle designer Richard Nilsson, located on the French Riviera in Cannes.

The concept include super sports cars, private jets, yachts, butlers, chefs, bodyguards and basically any other service you may wish for.

Guests can get access to an exclusive car fleet, regularly updated, which today consists of a Wiesmann Roadster, Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and Mercedes S-Class.

This villa is located in beautiful, spacious enclosed grounds (3,900 m 2). It has 450 m2 of floor space and has 4 luxury bedrooms and a garden house.

The luxury yacht Azimut 68S were the most exclusive limousine yacht of the Croisette, chosen by Chopard to offer its VIP guests an unprecedented attention.

Chopard was the Main Sponsor of the “Palme d’Or” Festival besides being the maker of the coveted award.

On the occasion of the 61st Film Festival, the Azimut 68S becomes the most impressive stage on the sea in all of Cannes, welcoming onboard the stars of the Film Festival who are Chopard’s guests for “glitzy” photo shoots organised by the prestigious firm and offering short cruises between the Croisette, the famed beach of the Hotel Carlton and the Eden Roc of Cap d’Antibes, the exclusive venue for Chopard’s trendiest parties.

Madonna attended the amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS fundraiser at the Cannes Film Festival held by Sharon Stone on Thursday.

During the event Madonna wore a salmon colored satin secretarial shirt dress from Christian Dior. Madonna auctioned her Karl Lagerfeld diamond encrusted custom-designed handbag, that included her lip balm, lip gloss, compact mirror, hair clips, lozenges and even her face blotting paper.

She blotted her face and body on stage, gave it to Stone, who also blotted herself and said, “There’s a lot of DNA there now. In case there’s a murder you’ll have the evidence.”
The purse and all the items inside brought in about $1.5 million to the fundraiser.

Madonna also put up one of her guitars for auction and a prize of winning her sing two songs in private to the winner before a concert this fall while she’s on tour.

The songs also helped bring in money with the original bid being at about $500,000, to which Madonna joked, “I’m worth more than that! People have asked me to play at their bar mitzvahs!”

The songs ended up selling for a bit over $600,000 which caused Madonna to lean into the mic and say, “Don’t humiliate me.”

Other celebs helped by purchasing dinner tickets at $5,000 such as Christian Slater, Diddy, Natalie Portman, Star Jones, Dita Von Teese, and Rose McGowan.
With the help of many other celebrities at the event, Stone was able to raise $10 million this year, a $3 million improvement from last year

The 61st Cannes Film Festival, Swarovski shined for the 9th consecutive year at the special suite in the Hôtel Martinez. For the second year in a row, Swarovski’s artistic director Nathalie Colin Roblique was presenting the Red Carpet Collection - an exceptional range of 10 bags in gold, silver and black.

These exclusive models, worked in luxurious materials such as galuchat, python and crocodile skins, illustrate the technical know-how, characteristic of the Daniel Swarovski’s Couture line.
Finely sized, cleverly bevelled and audaciously sculpted crystal lights up the bags and soaks up the flashing lights – reflecting a myriad of colour and sophistication.

The spotlight is on the Star Collector, Famous bag this year. With its enamelled border sprinkled with silver, this bag in Crystal Mesh and smooth leather, stands a class apart. Its geometric shape reminds one of the clutch bags of the 80s New York night-owls.
This limited edition bag, of which only 100 pieces have been created, was offered to actresses during the festival!

Via Swarovski