See You At the Semi Annual Show

Mayor Bloomberg delivered a press release: "Starting in the fall of 2010, the bi-annual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week events will move [from Bryant Park] to Damrosch Park at Lincoln." Um Mayor, it's a semi-annual event. CityHonorz was hardly alone in this error. Newsday, Examiner.com and StyleAmmo also confused bi-annual (every two years) with semi-annual. I'm no William Safire, either. I got my own lesson on the proper use of bi and tri when my long ago boss slammed me for suggesting, "Three times a year is, um, tri-annually." But when the economy has everyone wondering what, if anything, is worth the overhead, showing smart is just plain smart. Photo of Akiko Ogawa collection from F/W 2008, by Catherine Berlin.