Cannes will be riddled with millionaires looking for new Bentleys and gold-plated mobile phones.
Am I bothered? No, but I am amused by the hilarious translation on the Cannes Palais des Festivales website:
"The Millionaire Fair enjoys without precedent a success and gathers the main actors of luxury industry made of a hundred companies. The most luxurious cars, the watches, the most precious jewels, the most sumptuous residences, unique concept of living, unusual boats and all the most beautiful that the world can offer to himself, will be presented to the public in a muffled atmosphere. This is why the Millionaire Fair is the ideal event to form contacts and to allow the epicureans to find themselves in a luxury and exceptional place.
The Millionaire Fair became rapidly an inescapable concept through the world. The visitors and the clients enjoy an unique experience, entertaining even magic where we can appreciate music and all the entertainments proposed, while discovering all the new luxury products. In September it will be the turn of France to go into ecstasies over this spectacular abundance."
Rich they may be, but can they speak English?
Besides a "unique concept of living" it seems they share a "unique concept of language" also.
Posted by: raf | September 08, 2006 at 10:04 PM