Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[Foxie-Pooh]

I always have trouble pronuncing some foreign designer/brand names...lets list some tough names and teach the rest the correct way to say it

 

[ultramarine]

Well... I'm always confused about Proenza-Schouler ... some people say Skool-er and others Shoe-ler.

 

[Belowen]

Givenchy = Jhee-Von-Shee

 

[prixi]

how about Ghesquire...

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

Comme des Garcons, Lacroix (La-croy??) --- Help on those!!!

Coming from a town where Von Dutch is upscale, I have never heard most of these names said aloud

 

[Spacemiu]

Comme Des Garcons - c-om de gar-son

Lacriox- la -cwa

Ghesquire- jes-key-er

this is teh best i can do

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Spacemiu@Jul 13 2004, 06:06 PM


Ghesquire- jes-key-er

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actually ...i think it's a hard G...guess-keyerr

pro-en-za skool-er...though i like shooler better...

anyone else?...

 

[Spike413]

I remember seeing a little article on this somewhere, some of the worst mis-pronunciations of designer names by Americans. It was like Wives Saint Lawrent and things along those lines, I swear, you could almost hear the horrible Long Island jap woman accent to go with the names.

 

[Alejandro]

All my friends make fun of me when I correct them when they say DE or when they say Dior, Chanel, channel, and nore of others ...they do it to tease me though, but I used to take french, so I have all my designer pronunciation skills sharped at it's best

 

[Luna]

Versace -- Vir- Saa- Cheeeeeeee

Not Ver-saays a la Elizabeth Berkley in the blockbuster!! Showgirls.

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Spike413@Jul 13 2004, 09:45 PM
I remember seeing a little article on this somewhere, some of the worst mis-pronunciations of designer names by Americans. It was like Wives Saint Lawrent and things along those lines, I swear, you could almost hear the horrible Long Island jap woman accent to go with the names.

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HAHAHA...ouch

i'm from long island...i've heard it with my own ears...it's pretty painful at times...

 

[Alejandro]

Veeer sAis was the other one

 

[Luna]

I childhood tv actors who dabble into softcore p*rn!

 

[Foxie-Pooh]

Is cristobal balenciaga like crysto-ball ba-len-si-ah-ga ?

 

[Belowen]

Hermes = Er-mez

Is that right?

 

[Spike413]

Originally posted by softgrey@Jul 13 2004, 10:15 PM
HAHAHA...ouch

i'm from long island...i've heard it with my own ears...it's pretty painful at times...

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Me too, and I live in a neighborhood where Haute Couture is pronounced Hawte Catour and you're only as good as your Lewie Vittahn........it's a wonder my family lives in such an uncultured little bubble.

 

[softgrey]

foxie and belowen...spot on...

 

[Spike413]

Ok, I gotta get this off my chest, but it took me two months before I stopped saying it Rochas and started saying Rosha.............

 

[softgrey]

demeulemeester ...i always hear people say demeule-MIESTER...which is WRONG...

it's MEESTER...

 

[prixi]

My mag says Ghesquire is pronounced Ghes-koo-are...