Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[carioca]

I really don't know how to pronnounce Behnaz Sarafpour

her first name is pronounced as it looks BEH/Naz and Sarafpour sounds like it has a silent "p" so Sa/ra/foor

 

[lola belle]

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to pronounce Juergen Teller. Could somebody please explain it?

(I speak french too. I feel like such a failure.)

 

[ilaughead]

Yer-gen (hard 'g' sound) Tell-er, I think.

 

[La bordélique]

^ I've heard the name pronounced different ways.
I say yoor-gen (hard 'g' sound).

 

[PrinceOfCats]

I figured it out. The person who made the slogan on the t-shirt just made a mistake.

I don't think it's a mistake; the English pronunciation is part of the irony.

 

[couturex]

How do you pronounce Miuccia? I know the begining is like mew, but is it like mew-chi-uh?

Also, I feel silly asking this, but how do y'all pronounce Louboutin?

 

[carioca]

How do you pronounce Miuccia? I know the begining is like mew, but is it like mew-chi-uh?

Also, I feel silly asking this, but how do y'all pronounce Louboutin?

Miuccia = mew/cha [according to the master, Tim Blanks]
Louboutin= loo/boo/ta [i'm having a hard time writing a pronounciation for the last syllable]
here's a video of a French girl saying it at 23 secs though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnPunqROKg

 

[PrinceOfCats]

The girl says 'Luh-BOO-ton', not the prettiest French accent I've ever heard but...

 

[Meg]

Anya Hindmarch. Just the other day I realized I'm pretty sure I've been saying her name wrong and when i googled it someone said it was French and gave a really weird way of saying. So does anyone know?

Someone else mentioned Rodarte. I'm positive it's pronounced -Ro-dart-ay as if the e on the end has a french accent grave over it (though it doesn't).

 

[pomegranates]

how do you pronounce Marjan Pejoski? He's Macedonian..?

 

[La bordélique]

I found this list of pronounciations on flare.com

Abaeté: Ah-bye-ah-tay
Alejandro Ingelmo:Allay-handro In-gel-mo
Andrew Gn:Andrew Jen (rhymes with “pen”)
Andy Thê-Anh: An-dee Tay-Ann
Anya Hindmarch: Ahn-ya Heind-march
Arthur Mendonça: Ar-thur Men-doe-sa
Badgley Mischka:Badge-lee Meesh-ka
Bebe:Bee-bee
Bottega Veneta: Bo-tega Ven-e-ta
Bulgari: Ball-gah-ree
Burberry Prorsum: Bur-bur-ree Pror-some
Carolina Herrera:Caro-leena Hair-era
Cesare Paciotti:Che-sah-ray Pah-cho-tee
Chaiken: Chay-ken
Charriol: Sha-ree-ol
Christian Louboutin: Loo-boo-tin (“tin” rhymes with the French word “vin”)
Dries Van Noten: Drees Van Know-ten
Ermenegildo Zegna: Er-men-a-geel-do Zen-ya
Gareth Pugh:Gareth Pew
Giles Deacon: Jy-els Dee-kin
Givenchy:Jhee-von-shee
Giambattista Valli: Gee-ahm-battista Valley
Hedi Slimane:Eddy Sli-mahn
Hermès:Air-mez
Hervé Léger:Air-vay Lay-jay
Joeffer Caoc:Joe-fur Kay-ock
Junya Watanabe: Joon-ya Wah-tah-nah-bay
Lanvin:Lon-vin (“vin” also rhymes with the French word for “wine”)
Loewe: Low-ev-ay
Louis Vuitton: Loo-ee Voo-ee-ton
Madame Gres: Madame Gray
Marchesa:Mar-kay-sa
Mainbocher: Maynbo-shay
Moschino:Mo-ski-no
Monique Lhullier:Mo-neek Loo-lee-ay
Narciso Rodriguez:Nar-siss-so Ro-dree-gez
Nicolas Ghesquière:Ni-co-la Guess-ki-air
Olivier Theyskens:Oli-vier Tay-skins
Pierre Cardin:Pee-air Car-dain
Proenza Schouler:Pro-enza Skool-er
Ralph Lauren:Ralph Lauren(as in Lauren the girl’s name, not Sophia Loren)
Rei Kawakubo: Ray Kah-wah-koo-bo
Rodarte:Ro-dart-tay
6267: Six-two-six-seven (not Sixty-two-sixty-seven)
Sonia Rykiel:Sonia Ree-kee-eel
Sophia Kokosalaki: So-fee-a Ko-ko-sah-lah-kee
Thakoon:Ta-koon
Thierry Mugler:Tee-air-ree Moog-lay
Tibi:Tbi(not Tee-bee)
Tocca: Toe-ka
Vionnet: Vee-oh-nay
Yohji Yamamoto: Yo-jee Ya-ma-mo-to

 

[Meg]

is that really how you pronounce marchesa? I've always been pronouncing it mar-chess-a in my head....

 

[ilaughead]

^I've heard Marchesa Casati pronounced Mar-kays-ah before, so I think that's right. Maybe an Italian speaker here would know for sure?

 

[Meg]

^
yes that makes sense, it would be an italian pronounciation which would make it a k sound instead of a ch, but since it's an american brand.....but then again, i've no idea who it's named after. Sort of like the issue of Proenza Schouler since the german and italian pronounciations of sch are different....

 

[pout306]

i feel like some from the flare site can be said in different ways as well

 

[FogUponLA]

I still feel hesitate when I say Carine Roitfeld out loud...

I've been looking for a video that says it properly somewhere with no luck.

 

[e-v-elina]

hanii y?

 

[make_me_whole]

is there a website where offers audio of the pronunciation?

 

[e-v-elina]

here's a good one http://www.brandspeaking.com/

 

[She Sends Kisses]

how do you pronounce mayle? is it may-lay or mail?