For years, the White Party Pool Party was a casual affair: a buncha lazy boyz flopped on chaises drinking big lady cocktails. Then CareResource got wise and realized that the boyz of South Beach love few things as much as a day party spent parading their bods and advertising their wares—and so the White Party Pool Party got a makeover. And this year, the Pool Party got glam and moved uptown to the still-being-renovated Eden Roc. $180 million later—and this year’s Pool Party was a new breed altogether.

By the time we walked through Morris Lapidus’s even-more-fabulous po-mo homo lobby, the revamped back pool area leading down to the ocean was packed with enough pulchritude to send one father and three sons running for cover. Basketballs in hand, they’d wandered through the crowd—before that slow-dawning awareness hit them that they were in the minority—whereupon, they skedaddled. Hurry home, boys—or we might just eat you alive!

Too bad the baby ravers left—because, truth be told, DJ Oren Nizri’s sexy South Beach set would’ve had them grooving and moving, regardless of whether they were hetero or not. This was Nizri’s first White Party Pool Party and right from the start, it was obvious the local favorite had done his homework and put together a set that was as unconventional as it was contagious. We talking Moby’s “I Like To Move In Here” and Gusto’s "Disco Revenge" and Dirty South’s "Let It Go." The sort of beats that gave a kind of sexy South Beach bounce to everyone on the roam. The boyz werked it out while taking it off—and about the only thing missing were the poles. Well, one kind of pole, anyway…

Then slowly, it hit people: There’s a fashion show going on here. Rufskin Fashions. http://www.rufskin.com/ The models were taking their laps around the pool’s perimeter. It was genius: a fashion show on the down low! You had to work to see which boyz were the real models—they were walking their walk through the crowd, flashes popping in their wake. It was true South Beach street fashion—because here on the Beach, the beach IS the street. And given that it’s the Beach, it was only a matter of minutes before the models were parading in little more than white garters. What’s not to love?

By the time DJ Oren Nizri plated Sunfreakz “Counting Down the Days,” the sun had begun its descent. And by then, it was clear to all that Nizri had given this party a distinctively South Beach spin that was equal parts jiggle and bounce mashed with slink and strut. His was the kind of high-tripping music made for groovin’ by a pool at the ocean’s edge, a prime pool party vibe—and the perfect segue into the evening as we all headed to Vizcaya.

Here’s to makeovers that make everyone look good all over again—and to the White Party Pool Party for making local boyz shine even brighter.