Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[StyleIsInUs]

^lanvin is hard to pronounce

 

[mimiko]

^

 

[CHEAPandCHIC]

^Is it like, La-va? Or Loh-Voh. Haha

 

[mimiko]

something like loh-vah .I guess

 

[La bordélique]

Hermès

Yves Saint Laurent

If you refer to Yves Saint Laurent's pronounciation,
Lanvin is pronounced L(ent)-v(aint)

Sound bites from the website mentionned earlier:
http://fashion.about.com/cs/designers/l/blpronounce.htm

 

[kevinnn]

What about Lanvin?

Lah-vaughn

That's the best I can type it.

Edit: Hear Julia Stegner say it.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2006RTW/video/LANVIN at about 4:17.

 

[JuiceMajor]

^ Hey thanx...I think that was how Tim Banks pronounces it. Sure is difficult.

 

[lanakau]

La bordélique gave a good comparison for Lanvin with Yves Saint Laurent. They are spelled differently but are pronounced exactly the same – "an" = "ent" and "in" = "aint". So, if you can say one, you can say the other.

Lahn-VEHN (with silent n's!)

With Hermès, the "è" would also sound basically the same as the "aint" in Yves Saint Laurent. "Her-may" is wrong. "É" and "è" are very different.

 

[EdanChrysler]

With Hermès, the "è" would also sound basically the same as the "aint" in Yves Saint Laurent. "Her-may" is wrong. "É" and "è" are very different.

I might concur that "Her-may" is indeed wrong - not just because the final sound (if there is a final sound) is missing - the originally-proffered diphthong may actually be wrong as well.

I refer to the site IELanguages on pronunciation in French:

é, et, and final er and ez ay
e, è, ê, ai, ei, ais eh

The implication here is that "Hermès", with the descending mark on the second "e", is not pronounced *ehR-may but rather ehR-meh. Considering also the fact that "pataquès" is read as "[pa ta kes]", and that the ending "-s" in "arrivés" is left not pronounced because the "é" is not the "è" in "Hermès" or "pataquès", we can ... err ... conclude that "Hermès" is pronounced as ... or so I can assert with erm 80% confidence ... ehR-mehs.

I, however, would like to disagree with the equating the pronunciation of "è" with "aint". Yes, the above chart indeed notes that "ai" is pronounced "eh" just like "è", it is vital to recall that "ai" in "Saint", or rather "Saint", is followed by "n", meaning whatever you see about "ai" above won't apply. Instead, let's refer to another pronunciation chart from the same site:

[QUOTE]
ahn anapple in, im, yn, ym, ain, aim, ein, eim, un, um, en, eng, oin, oing, oint, ien, yen, éen
[/QUOTE]

Clearly, the sounds are vastly different from each other. Hence, "Yves Saint Laurent" would actually be pronounced more to the effect of yeef-sahn-law-rohnt (All "-n" sounds are nasal). I am unsure if that last "t" is actually pronounced. Yeah.

Me two cents

 

[MarryMeTomFord]

i read this thread.. and i am still confused about how to pronouce Theyskens....
is it
Thigh-skins
Thees-kins
or Madonna's version?

help

 

[ilaughead]

I'm pretty sure it's Tey-skins. (Tey as in hay)

 

[MarryMeTomFord]

^ thanks!
Is theyskens originally a belgian/dutch surname? my freind is belgian and he does not know any such surname.....

 

[Diorling]

Jaeger Le Coultre....

According to my own pronounciation it would be Jay-ger (Jay sounds like Gee in Givenchy) lay coal-twa. Note Im in beginners French over here so...Ya...I *think* it's right but I feel so pretentious pronouncing Lanvin, YSL, etc properly, so Im never sure.

Lanvin is Lahn-vahn. Ive gotten used to calling Voo-tahn...Vwee-tahn.

 

[laffen]

Query on the proper pronunciation of Designers

Recently I am facing a dilemma of pronuncing the name of designers, say the shoe-of-the-monment " Christian Louboutin ", I heared at least three different versions of reading this French name. I used to read it in the english way but since my French friend correct me with the French pronunciation which is totally different from the English way. Yeah~~ it is French ...
so, how should we pronounce these designer name ? read them in English or their originally language??

 

[Bluestar07]

^ There's an entire thread on pronunciation so the mods will probably merge / delete this. Go here:
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forum...ciation-22439-35.html?highlight=pronunciation

 

[laffen]

thank you , seems back to school : )

 

[Bluestar07]

no prob

 

[Odette]

French pronuntiation is a b*tch, you just need to hear it a lot and alot alot until it seems normal to your ears.

"Her-may" That's just totally wrong, it's something like erh (french "r") and then emphasis on the mes but don't pronounce it as més cause the accent is mès. I'll say "erh-mehs" but it's so hard to explain cause I really have no idea which symbol represents each sound so...

 

[Odette]

Lahn-VEHN (with silent n's!)

I really don't pronounce it that way, I say something like lahn-vahn emphasis on the vanh.

 

[shallow_waters]

Jaeger Le Coultre....

According to my own pronounciation it would be Jay-ger (Jay sounds like Gee in Givenchy) lay coal-twa.

more like yay-ger le coo-treh, I think