Little editing error not unnoticed

Last updated on August 3rd, 2017 at 11:52 am

The Age’s Sarina Lewis reports:

Amid the cacophony of Paris Fashion Week, the opening of a new Louis Vuitton store on the Champs Elysees, the (literally) forested runways of Kenzo, and Lagerfeld’s neon-lit catwalk, Melbourne-born designer Martin Grant’s gentile, invitation only little soiree could have gone unnoticed.

Only gentiles were invited? This French anti-Semitism is way out of control.

(Via Andrew Richards, who writes: “Anyone who knows the Paris rag trade as I do will realise that this must have been a very small party.”)

1. I’m more annoyed at the lack of a hyphen between “invitation” and “only.”

   Posted by Rittenhouse on 2005 12 02 at 09:02 AM • permalink

1. Bacon canapes.

   Posted by rhhardin on 2005 12 02 at 09:03 AM • permalink

1. ‘invitationonly ’ in one word obviously foiling those looking for ‘invitation only’ events

   Posted by Melanie on 2005 12 02 at 09:19 AM • permalink

1. I think he meant “genteel”.  But then again …

   Posted by wronwright on 2005 12 02 at 09:46 AM • permalink

1. This is why spell-check will never take the place of eyes-on proofreading.  Which is becoming a lost art, obviously.

   Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 02 at 10:34 AM • permalink

1. Boy, Sy Feigenbaum the Knock-Off King down in the NY garment district (“I can do what Givenchy does a thousand times, and for ten cents on his dollar!) would never get away with that mishegoss, gonif of a schmatte dealer tho’ he be…

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 02 at 10:56 AM • permalink

1. Oy vey! I mean, uh, Oi, mate! Where’s the buffet?

   Posted by Rob C. on 2005 12 02 at 10:59 AM • permalink

1. This is what happens when a writer starts flinging fancy words around as if he were spreading fertilizer pellets. Very deleterious to the attempted aesthetic effect, not to mention dangerously luxating to the cognitive procedure. Or something.

   Posted by paco on 2005 12 02 at 02:19 PM • permalink

1. At least Lagerfeld’s catwalk was neon-lit. Not neocon-lit. Or citroen-lit.

   Posted by geoff on 2005 12 02 at 04:53 PM • permalink

1. This is why spell-check will never take the place of eyes-on proofreading.

   If I weren’t living proof of the troof of this statement, I’d attempt to make some lame joke about it.

   Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 12 02 at 05:19 PM • permalink

1. Geoff, I thought all the citroens were toast?

   Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 12 02 at 11:45 PM • permalink

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