Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[AlexN]

I don't mean to be a jerk, but could people at least make an effort to find what they're looking for before adding on to this unnecessarily long thread? Givenchy is on the previous page in the HUGE list. Nearly every designer has been covered somewhere in here. You can find what you need using the advanced search function correctly.

[djflame]

Originally Posted by LAMALONE

PLEASE HELP ME PRONOUNCE BVLGARI AND GIVENCHY.

Bvlgari = Bul-Ga-Ry

Givenchy = Gee-Von-Shee

and I don't get it, Balenciaga is actually pretty easy to pronounce. Balencia sounds a lot like Valencia, so just go Balenci (say it as you say Valencia), then a (like the "a" in Maria), then ga.

Issey Miyake

Miyake is pronounced Me-Yah-K. i hate it when sales assiocates go Me-Yak, or Me-Ya-Keyy. it makes my native language sound horrible. same when I order sake and they go "so you want Sha-Key?"

[emilytara]

i know its not a designer, but how about pret-a-porter?

[LAMALONE]

What did you tell i need to do with the pics?

[LAMALONE]

And you were being a jerk about finding the thread of all the designer pronunciation.Some people don't have time to go through the whole thread to find all that info.

[emilytara]

oh and one more: miuccia, as in miuccia prada

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by emilytara

oh and one more: miuccia, as in miuccia prada

Mew - ccha

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by emilytara

i know its not a designer, but how about pret-a-porter?

Prat - ah - port - èh [like in elizabeth]

[Meg]

Lamalone, AlexN was not being a jerk but merely helping you follow the tfs guidelines. This thread is becoming redundant because it is clogged up with the same posts over and over again. It takes the same amount of time to do an advanced search as it does to type your original post. The more posts there are, the more bandwith that is eaten up and the more it costs us to run this site. Please be respectful of that

[Jesper]

Quote:

Givenchy = Gee-Von-Shee

Not exactly, it`s more like

Givenchy = She-von-shee

[Kyle]

I know you guys have talked about this before... but someone suggests it is like bot- EH - ga Ven- ah- TAH

but I thought it is bot-tee-ga... could anyone help?

[Thorin]

Originally Posted by Kyle

I know you guys have talked about this before... but someone suggests it is like bot- EH - ga Ven- ah- TAH

but I thought it is bot-tee-ga... could anyone help?

It's Bot - teh - gah.

[milamar]

Originally Posted by justinelm

hermes = air - mess

As far as I know French, you don't pronounce "s" when it stands as the last letter in the word. And the accent should fall on the last "e". Correct me French native speakers if I'm wrong with this one, but i suggest: air-ME'

[Ditte-Maria]

Originally Posted by milamar

As far as I know French, you don't pronounce "s" when it stands as the last letter in the word. And the accent should fall on the last "e". Correct me French native speakers if I'm wrong with this one, but i suggest: air-ME'

Correct, as far as I know and learned in my French lessons....

[mynameisvanity]

Originally Posted by Ditte-Maria

Correct, as far as I know and learned in my French lessons....

That was what I thought, and what I still say, but I always feel like an idiot when everyone else is adding the 'z' at the end and I'm the only one pronouncing it like that.