Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[emilytara]

oh and one more: miuccia, as in miuccia prada

 

[Thorin]

oh and one more: miuccia, as in miuccia prada

Mew - ccha

 

[Thorin]

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]

Bottega Veneta?

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[cookies3939]

What about Rive Gauche?

 

[stilettogirl84]

ree-vay go(to the mall)-sh

 

[cookies3939]

Thanks so much. And where is the stress??

 

[stilettogirl84]

sorry

REE-vay (go)sh -long o sound, not gosh

 

[shallow_waters]

sorry

REE-vay (go)sh -long o sound, not gosh

actually it's more like "reeve", as the "e" is not accented.

 

[Deleted 2]

Anyone care to tackle the pronunciation of Yigal Azrouel (umlaut on the e)?

 

[PrinceOfCats]

What about Rive Gauche?

ree (as in 'Reebok')
v (as in 'Valium')
go (as in 'Go figure')
sh (as in 'Shaken not stirred')

You could pronounce 'gauche' closer to 'gosh' but I've heard native speakers use both and all sorts of shades in between. When pronouncing 'gauche' in English (as in, 'My, that's rather gauche of you'), it's generally the former.

 

[cookies3939]

Wt about Kenzo and Kris Van Assche??

 

[Cinthia]

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'

I can help you on this one since I'm French. It is pronounced air_mess because Hermés is a Greek name. He was a Greek deity ( the son of Zeus and Maia and the messenger of the gods)

 

[Melisande]

Wt about Kenzo and Kris Van Assche??

Ken as in Ken

zo as in Zoroaster ...or zone, if you like but without the "ou" double vowel, just a straight open o.

the accent goes equally on both syllables, as in KEN-ZOH