Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[justinelm]

Originally Posted by maraschin0

I usually say "Er-mez" for Hermes. It's probably wrong though.

hermes = air - mess

[AlexN]

Originally Posted by 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"

Like "trees" with a "d"

[CharlottefromCA]

This isn't a designer.. but I've always wondered how to pronounce demarchelier.. the photographer.

[AudiEC]

Originally Posted by KrissPenn149

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"

Ah. C'est jusqu'ament le que je va dire. Pardon mon francais est detestable.

Mais je devrais le pratiquer.

[gabich]

Vous êtes vraiment trop marrant ! À essayer de prononcer les noms de grandes maisons parisiennes ! Nicolas Ghesquière ...That's a hard one for you guys ! or Emmanuel Ungaro, Comme des garçons...ect.

As a Parisienne I find it pretty funny..although my english accent is pretty terrible...(hahaha)

[gabich]

Originally Posted by KrissPenn149

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"

''des''is not pronouced like ''day'' ! ''des'' is a much more clear sound than day ! DEsis morelike the E in PrincEss ( you dont pronouce the sss sound at the end)... French is hard

[justinelm]

Originally Posted by gabich

''des''is not pronouced like ''day'' ! ''des'' is a much more clear sound than day ! DEsis morelike the E in PrincEss ( you dont pronouce the sss sound at the end)... French is hard

I don't think "dEs" 'E sounds the same as the E in "PrincEss" ... I not exactly "day" either ... not sure what the english equivalent would be. (et je sais de quoi je parle quand je prononce des mots en Francais).

Maybe something closer to the first syllab of "Destitution" for example?

[fashionistasista]

i always wondered about louboutin
how is it pronounced??
lou as in lieu
bou as in taking a bow
tin as in a tin but a soft n?
or loo - boo - tin??
im so confused and hear different apropriations from different people

[melt977]

could someone clarify 'theyskens'please

[em 692]

i say Louboutin "loo-bah-tahn"
...as in going to "the loo" and bah-tahn like "baton"

[zendi]

can anybody tell me how to pronounce Hussein Chalayan??

[primrose_sg]

Hussein Chalayan--hOOsan shah-LI-on

[melt977]

Actually it's more like,

Who-saY-n Cha-la-yiA-n

...He is Turkish - Cypriot but since he is based in England I believe that he is more likely to be pronounced as ChA-la-yian

[fashion_d]

Beata Dirycz

it is pronounced Bee-at-ahh Deer-itch

[bluerider]

sorry guys I am kind of embarrased
how do you pronouce: "tsubi"?
thanks