It was a glamorous evening when celebrities gathered at the home of Honorary Chair Dinho Diniz at São Paulo, Brazil for fifth annual Inspiration Gala, paying tribute to Cher, Felipe Diniz and Jean Paul Gaultier and raising fund for amfAR’s life-saving AIDS research programs.
Presented by Harry Winston and co- hosted by Naomi Champbell, the program began with performance by popstar Kylie Minogue. Jean Paul Gaultier was awarded with amfAR Lifetime Achievement Award while Felipe Diniz and Cher were awarded with amfAR Award of Inspiration.
The live auction started with a $100,000 donation by Felipe Diniz for the Jean Paul Gaultier dress that was being worn at the event by his brother Dinho’s girlfriend, Danielle Pontes followed by a signed 1962 Bert Stern photograph of amfAR co-founder Dame Elizabeth Taylor with tickets to upcoming amfAR Inspiration Galas in New York and Los Angeles. The highest selling auction lot was a signed Nina Pandolfo artwork titled Maiorque a Imensidao da Paz. Pandolfo.
The show came to end with an one of Brazil’s greatest ever “sambistas,” Alcione. The evening saw presence of celebritieslike Kate Moss, Riccardo Tisci, , Sabrina Sato, Juliana Paes, Lazaro Ramos, Izabel Goulart, Deborah Secco, Fernanda Motta, and Thais Araujo to name a few.
