Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[SanDiego]

How do you say Issey Miyaki?
I always say Iss-he but I hear people say Ish-she

[Yppe]

Marrimoda I think you have explained perfectly how to prounce the "c" from balenciaga, I didn't thought about "thi", because my English phonetics is so bad,
but know I think that it's the most similar.

[m4ryb3ar]

Originally Posted by AlexN

most people tend to mush his name together very quickly...like evesahnlaurahn

ok, i think i gotcha hehe thanks

[Mutterlein]

Originally Posted by SanDiego

How do you say Issey Miyaki?
I always say Iss-he but I hear people say Ish-she

this I know for SURE....

it's like EEES-AY ME-YAH-KEE

[SanDiego]

Thanks Muterlein, I have been pronouncing it wrong for a while now, at least I wasnt say ISH-she!

[yourbestfriend]

ah my tongues getting tired...

[Meg]

so it's pronounced like 'ray' then for rei kawakubo??

as for balenciaga...I really don't think that the vast majority of people will understand that cristobal is from the basque region of spain and therefore to pronounce it as it looks is much easier than pronouncing it as a few thousand people would.

[MaLkAv]

luckily japanese and italian pronunciation are the same

if balenciaga is spanish then "ciaga" has to be spoken this way: "thi"aga (lol I left aga out of the phonetics since i'm not an english native and i don't wanna say stupid things )

[AlexN]

Originally Posted by Meg

so it's pronounced like 'ray' then for rei kawakubo??

yes.

[marrimoda]

Originally Posted by Meg

so it's pronounced like 'ray' then for rei kawakubo??

as for balenciaga...I really don't think that the vast majority of people will understand that cristobal is from the basque region of spain and therefore to pronounce it as it looks is much easier than pronouncing it as a few thousand people would.

Really its more than just a few thousand. Also I think that for many Spaniards the pronounciation will be quite the same. I am just providing an explainer on the authentic pronounciation -- as is being done for many other designers in this thread...(review the posts on the belgian names, japanese names, french...etc)

In the end it is always your choice to form your verbal communication as you wish.

[Diorling]

Too lazy to read through. Has anyone solved Courreges? I just say courages.

[marrimoda]

Originally Posted by Yppe

Marrimoda I think you have explained perfectly how to prounce the "c" from balenciaga, I didn't thought about "thi", because my English phonetics is so bad,
but know I think that it's the most similar.

Yppe -- I think in general that pronounciation is quite difficult to discuss without some audio demonstration...but oh well.

Maybe you also speak Catalan?

[Luna]

courreges? Isn't it KORE-AH-SHJAY? That's sorta the way I say it... very French sounding.

[brian]

Originally Posted by Luna

courreges? Isn't it KORE-AH-SHJAY?

yep!

[Luna]

Yay.. all 4 years of those french classes in HS paid off.