Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[AlexN]

Originally posted by pocodolce@Dec 8 2004, 12:13 AM
i think thats how you pronounce it coz they said it like that in princess diaries......

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Just watch the Hermes show on Fashion Files. It's pronounced a whole bunch of times, all the same way by a handful of different people.

 

[versace]

Hey i was watching this vid on louisvuitton's website.. and jacobs pronouced it as being "Loo eee Vwee ton"

so yah :S:S:S:S:S ?? confused ay

Also my friend said "Guck key" once for pronouncing Gucci.. and also another said "Ver say see" for Versace... not very cultural conscious huh!!!

 

[Meg]

metal, i know why i thought that. Because i remember reading an article on him awhile back and they put the pronounciation as Slim-Man-E.

 

[sassandviolet]

Ok not so much a big name designer but, is it Ernest Sewn, like Earnest SOWN, or Earnest SOON?

I've heard them pronounced both ways?

 

[saturnine]

I think people think if they pronounce someone's name in the most outlandish way possible, they will cover up the fact that they don't have a clue and in turn start others questioning if their pronounciation is right.

It's a vicious cycle.

 

[Alura]

Originally posted by Nader@Jul 18 2004, 09:54 PM
is the A in Lanvin like in Man or Lawn

I usually pronounce it Lawn-vingt (like how twenty would be pronounced in french) but I dont know if its right

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That's correct . Lawn-vingt as you would pronounce Vin, French for wine. Being in Europe it comes no natural, it must be a challenge for Americans to get all those names right . I must say I had a problem with DKNY (years ago), deee-kay-and-why. (decay and why? haha)

 

[Puccipatterned]

I'm discovering that I say wrong a lot of designer's names!
But, Balenciaga, well I'm spanish and it's pronounced with a sound that doesn't exist in english, it's an spanish sound difficult to find an equivalence in other languages. The c from balenciaga is pronounced with this sound, between an "s" and a "z".

 

[dior4ever]

Originally posted by Lena@Jul 29 2004, 07:37 PM
my two euro dimes for smashin 

sOnia ReekiEL
RossA
plEn sOOd

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its not rossa but ro chas ro tchas does that help but dont pronounce the t try to say chas? im french

 

[dior4ever]

Originally posted by pocodolce@Dec 8 2004, 06:13 AM
i think thats how you pronounce it coz they said it like that in princess diaries......

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u dont pronounce the h "ermes"

 

[faust]

Originally posted by sassandviolet@Dec 8 2004, 03:23 AM
Ok not so much a big name designer but, is it Ernest Sewn, like Earnest SOWN, or Earnest SOON?

I've heard them pronounced both ways?

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not qualified for this thread, not a designer

 

[bee]

moschino = mosheeno or moskeeno? or am i wrong for both

 

[metal-on-metal]

Originally posted by Meg@Dec 8 2004, 03:15 AM
metal, i know why i thought that. Because i remember reading an article on him awhile back and they put the pronounciation as Slim-Man-E.

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Oh that's so strange. Where was the article?

 

[metal-on-metal]

Originally posted by bee@Dec 8 2004, 02:34 PM
moschino = mosheeno or moskeeno? or am i wrong for both

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moskeeno

 

[Mr-Dale]

I am going for Mosheeno...

 

[BrothaG]

It's definitely 'mosheeno'

 

[Puccipatterned]

I think it's Moskino, the "ch" in italian sounds "k"

 

[metal-on-metal]

Originally posted by Puccipatterned@Dec 8 2004, 03:13 PM
I think it's Moskino, the "ch" in italian sounds "k"

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Yep

It is not "mosheeno"

 

[softgrey]

why is it this one causes so much confusion...
ch is K in italian...end of story...va bene?...

 

[metal-on-metal]

Originally posted by softgrey@Dec 8 2004, 03:32 PM


why is it this one causes so much confusion...
ch is K in italian...end of story...va bene?...

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THANK you!

 

[softgrey]