Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[Couture_Tribe]

Well, I might have to correct Hermes.

It is not French I believe, it is Greek. In Greek Mythology, there are twelf gods/ goddess, Hermes is the god of making clothes. It is Her- mees.

BTW, I am not European, so I could be wrong, I am only saying according to English class.

 

[stilettogirl84]

Hermes has a phone number for customer service- if you call them, the hold recording prounces the brand name in the way I assume they intend for it to be pronounced

the way they said it was (to my ear) aehr- mehz

800 441 4488.

Hermes.com

 

[ilaughead]

Thanks Odette for the Lanvin pronunciation. I have so much trouble with it. And though Hermes is in Greek mythology, I'm pretty sure that Hermés (aer-mez) is from a French family's last name. At least, that's what an SA told me...

 

[notmanons]

Hahahah this is a weird one
: Lingerie- I used to pronounce it as: laund-er-eey. A girl in my years parents sell lingerie and i kept saying laundry and she got rle embaressed because people thought that. Then she corrected me.

 

[it-boy's nature]

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

i KNOW!!!!!, someone once corrected me and said it was shoe-ler
i think that is how you pronounce it though

 

[it-boy's nature]

Hermes = Er-mez

Is that right?

yup

 

[pichu888]

^agreed. "er mez" or "air mez", however you want to spell it.

 

[darlingnicki]

I have a couple...

The Mouret part of Roland Mouret.
Demeulemeester as in Ann Demeulemeester
Dries Van Noten
Hedi Slimane


Thanks!!

 

[Diorling]

Mouret - More-ray
Dries Van Noten - Dreez van no-ten
Hedi Slimane - Eddie Slee-mahn

 

[La bordélique]

Isn't it Slee-main?
I was wondering because of that House of Holland t-shirt...
Give me pain, Hedi Slimane... shouldn't it rhyme?

 

[Madhuri]

How do you pronounce this perfume?

Annick Goutal-- Eau D' Hadrien

 

[ilaughead]

Oooh! Here's a good one: Goyard! I have no idea on that whatsoever!

 

[shallow_waters]

^Go-yar

 

[tourist10]

what about Sari Gueron?
Thanks!

 

[kellyisazebra]

Hah I'm sure this one has been done quite a few times...but I don't have the patience to read through the 715 posts... lol. I'd appreciate it if someone could reply.

How do you pronounce Nicolas Ghesquiere? & Balenciaga? To make sure...haha.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Well, I might have to correct Hermes.

It is not French I believe, it is Greek. In Greek Mythology, there are twelf gods/ goddess, Hermes is the god of making clothes. It is Her- mees.

BTW, I am not European, so I could be wrong, I am only saying according to English class.

It is French, in the same way that the Greek Phaedra becomes Phedre in French. You can tell because transliterated Greek omits the diacritic.

 

[Spiral1532]

Balenciaga?

Ba-len-CIAH-ga.

 

[vanilla fairy]

i hate hate haaaaate it when people pronounce DKNY as one word, like (deknee)
nice thread,

 

[samanthay]

i hate hate haaaaate it when people pronounce DKNY as one word, like (deknee)
nice thread,

I agree!! I can't stand that!!!!

 

[ilaughead]

i hate hate haaaaate it when people pronounce DKNY as one word, like (deknee)
nice thread,

People actually do that!? That's bizarre!