Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by kathyjeanc

i read in teen vogue that it's pronounced moss-kee-no

Yes, Moskeeno.

[Odette]

Haute is not hot! Totally not!

Let's see if i can help too!

Haut: Ot
Moschino: moskino (not moskinoo with the long american "o", I heard that yesterday in some American program)
Givenchy: ji-van-shee, ji like jingle, van it's just french pronunciation.
Dior: deeor, I pronounce it very -orr but that's my accent

[Odette]

Mr. Elbaz pronounces it Lon-vun-very soft n.


Not really

Lon is Lan and vun is not really like that, it like a bit of vann.I am french but you know pronunciation is really tricky, I just can't write it as I pronounce it. For me is really difficult to write cause the majority of the people here speak english and your alphabet sound completely different and sounds totally different.

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by kleinesdeutsch

how about alessandro dell'acqua?

Al - e [like in elephant] - sun - dro
Dell [like the brand of PCs]
A [like in in car] qua [like in quadrate]

[Meg]

Why is it 'draw' and not 'dro' ?

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by Meg

Why is it 'draw' and not 'dro' ?

Yes, better dro.

[Odette]

Well I think Thorin tried to explain it cause usually english speaking people pronounce draw the way us(french, italian, spanish,portuguese...) pronounce dro. I think draw is perfect cause not many people would pronounce dro with an "o" sound and draw on the other hand is pronounce like dro.

[frillonassook]

im not sure if someone corrected it
but its actually pronounced like day for des in french and not de.
so comme des garcons is like "com day gar son".

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by frillonassook

im not sure if someone corrected it
but its actually pronounced like day for des in french and not de.
so comme des garcons is like "com day gar son".

No, it's De.

[CharlottefromCA]

I don't pronounce the N in son either.. is that right?

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by CharlottefromCA

I don't pronounce the N in son either.. is that right?

It's a "nasal n". It's a typical sound of French...It's the same of Vuitton, and it's not completely pronounced.

It's something similar to the classic Yoga sound 'ohm' , with N instead that M

[Arturo21]

You also have to look at how different people from different areas of the world pronounce things. I live here in the US, and I know for sure DELL is pronounced differently than in my native land of Venezuela, where the speak spanish (a language of the Latin category, along with French, Italian, etc....where many of these names derive from) So the "dell" in DELL'ACQUA is different to an Italian than it is to an American.

also with the 'de', in latin-category languages...it's a "deh". In English, moste people would say something like "dee" or if not, "day". Both incorrect.

[KrissPenn149]

Originally Posted by Thorin

No, it's De.

Actually, Odette, you're completely right. En français, 'des' is pronounced like "day", and 'de' almost sound like the proverbial American 'duh'.

The Spanish 'de' need not apply to the french 'de' as the 'e' is accentuated far stronger than in French.

Even Portuguese from Brazil and Portugal vary on the 'de', with Brazil pronouncing it like the letter 'g' w/out the 'e' sound and Portugal saying like a 'thuh'.

French: Odette, vous avez tout a fait raison, bien sur

English: "Odette, you are completely right, of course"

[enfant_squelette]

C'est drole car moi, j'habite au Montréal, en Québec, Canada. Ici on parle presque tous en Francais alors je peux facilement vous aider avec la prononciation des noms que vous en discutent. Vous avez seulement a me demander, je te jure que mon Francais est tres bonne!

And, well, yeah I speak english too. So my point is, vaguely, that I can help you out with french pronounciations.

Love,

émilia.

[kelly t.]

Okay, I'll admit: I'm too lazy to check back through all those pages to see if this was asked, but how do you pronounce Dries Van Noten?

Is the Dries actually pronounced like "dries" (like, drying your clothes drying dry..dries.....)? Or is it "dree-ehs" or "dreees" or "dreez"