Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[Street_a_Licious]

Loo-Boo-Tin like "Tin Tin", the comic figure. or the TU of turn. silent N.

srsly, i never had real issues pronouncing designer names. learned too many foreign languages for that too happen know french, german and either spanish or italian and things take care of themselves.

 

[Littleathquakes]

Not sure if it's been mentioned: Elie Saab.

Pronounced like Ellie? Or Eli?

Saab...as in Saab the car? Or Sabe (rhymes with Save)?

 

[Miss Mod]

It's Ellie, and Saab like the car. Some people do a little bit of a Z on the S.

 

[Espoir]

I think it's: EH-li zahb

 

[lavender blue]

How do you pronounce Alber Elbaz, Lanvin and couturier? I just want to be sure.

 

[nyc_art_style]

Oliver Theyskens. Is it O-Liv-er or O-liv-ve ?

 

[Ariadne]

It's Olivier, so the 'r' is silent.

 

[Espoir]

^^
Alber Elbaz: al-BEAR el-BAHZ
Lanvin: lon-VAN

 

[papa_levante]

Comme des garcons?

Something "of the boys" right?

Comb day ? I know how to say garcons.

TY.

 

[Espoir]

^
com de gar-son

 

[Squizree]

Garcon is pronounced Gar-sohn. IS that what you meant Espoir?

 

[Espoir]

^ Thanks

 

[lavender blue]

^^
Alber Elbaz: al-BEAR el-BAHZ
Lanvin: lon-VAN

are you sure-I've always thought there were some silent letters, especially with Lanvin-I've heard it as LAN-Va sometimes

 

[from: sophia]

Iv been told its lon-va as well

 

[vanilla fairy]

Not sure if it's been mentioned: Elie Saab.

Pronounced like Ellie? Or Eli?

Saab...as in Saab the car? Or Sabe (rhymes with Save)?

SAAB as in the car only the S is actually as in Sun
but the very correct pronunciation of SAAB is not with a double A at all, in arabic it's a sound that doesn't exist in english.. it's one of those sounds that only hebrew and arabic have, im pretty sure you got what im referring to

 

[Squizree]

^Yeah, you're right. In Arabic "aa" is actually a letter that isnt in the English language. Its's a very heavy throaty sound.

 

[Espoir]

I've heard:
Lahn-Vaan but also LAW-van and Lo(n) va(n) [nasalized 'n'] in France. Does anyone have a sure pronunciation?
Sorry, I'm not much help

 

[lavender blue]

^I know it's really confusing me too
So again:
Lanvin and Alber Elbaz please

Thanks in advance

 

[Katie123]

i feel so happy i'm a native in a latin-based language. it makes ALL the other latin ones so much easier to understand

 

[from: sophia]

I know that it is Abear