Difficult Designer / Brand Pronunciation

[AlexN]

Deja vu all over again. Some people need to start reading at the beginning of this thread.

Ernest Sewn is pronounced "SOWN", with a hard "O", or like the words "Sewing" or "Sowing" (both pronounced the same).

 

[BrothaG]

Lol, then apparantly most Dutch people pronounce Moschino in the wrong way. It's been too long since my Italian class..

 

[AlexN]

Originally posted by BrothaG@Dec 8 2004, 02:49 PM
Lol, then apparantly most Dutch people pronounce Moschino in the wrong way. It's been too long since my Italian class..

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Most people pronounce it the wrong way.

 

[Fade to Black]

Originally posted by AlexN@Dec 8 2004, 02:51 PM
Most people pronounce it the wrong way.

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i learned how to pronounce "Moschino" from the Biggie song

 

[AlexN]

Originally posted by Fade to Black@Dec 8 2004, 06:52 PM
i learned how to pronounce "Moschino" from the Biggie song

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Me too!!! But then I thought it was wrong since everyone else usually pronounces it incorrectly. It's great to know you can trust B.I.G.

 

[Lena]

it is Moskeeno.. btw, their ss05 collection is destined to be very influential, they had such a good season, seems fitting people looking up how to pronounce the label in the correct way.. it will come handy, trust me

 

[Meg]

I'm bringing this back up because I hate having wrong pronounciation (pronunciation?).

erotokritos- 'arrow-kri-toes' not quite 'toes' but tose like comatose.

thierry mugler- the first name i know as terry, but i've heard the last name pronounced two ways both 'miu-glay' as well as 'miu-gler'

celine- seems easy i know and I know the french pronounciation is 'seh-lyn' but i was wondering if more people in the industry call it 'seh-leen' as many people call celine dion 'seh-leen' though the correct prounounciation is 'seh-lyn'

 

[AlexN]

erotokritos- 'arrow-kri-toes' not quite 'toes' but tose like comatose.

I don't see how that can be right. You're leaving out an entire syllable. Wouldn't it be "arrow-toe-kri-toes"? I don't think "eroto" would ever simply be "arrow". But I could be wrong...

 

[Meg]

haha yeah alex I forgot to type that in! 'err-ro-toe' sorry thanks for the correction. Also some that I've wondered forever and probably butcher:

Junya Watanabe and Rei Kawakubo (did I even spell them right?) Not that I even say their names on a daily basis but I'm probably butchering the japanese in my head so I want to know!

 

[metal-on-metal]

thierry mugler- the first name i know as terry, but i've heard the last name pronounced two ways both 'miu-glay' as well as 'miu-gler'

moo-gler

 

[Morningstar]

Rei Kawakubo

1. There is no R sound in Japanese. R sounds like L:
2. U sounds like the u in chute: "oo"
3. O is flat like in open

l-eh-ee
Kah-Wah-Ku-Bo

Is the best I could do phonetically.

Issey Miyake

I suspect and believe I read somewhere Miyake changed his name to Issey to make it easier for westerners to pronounce. There's really no way I can think of to write that name using the Japanese vowel consanant combonation. I figure it was originally Isei.

Anyway, Miyake in a Japanese pronouciation is:

Me-Yah-Keh

Junya Watanabe



Junya. The "Jun" sounds like the month June so it would be:

Joon-Yah

Watanabe. N sound is sort of weird to explain. It's sort of a short "n" sound that you would hear at the begining of the word no or nah.

Wah-Tah-Na-Beh

 

[Morningstar]

Proenza Schouler

This girl that was in my class started hanging out with one of the guys sister and she said that it's actually pronounced like: Schooler/Skool-Er. I still don't know which is right for sure.

 

[Meg]

Thanks morning star though I think I'm still going to pronounce rei wrong.

As for Schouler I've done some thinking about this and it really depends whether the last name is German or Italian. If it's german, it's shoe-ler, if it's italian, it's skoo-ler. I think it acceptable to pronounce them either way.

 

[morgan38]

I've heard Lanvin pronounced a few different ways. Does anybody know for sure?

 

[POTC_ROXS]

How do you pronounce Blahnik?

 

[morgan38]

How do you pronounce Blahnik?

i believe it is.. blah-nick

 

[Nemova]

I've heard Lanvin pronounced a few different ways. Does anybody know for sure?

Lûn-vûn, I guess.

 

[Mr. Lee]

lon veen?

 

[Spike413]

Actually I believe the correct pronunciation is Lon-van with very little enphasis on the second N....could be wrong though.

 

[tealady]

This link might be useful:

http://fashion.about.com/cs/designers/l/blpronounce.htm