@@eri6656 English is a very easy language. Not many words, including that particular name, are that hard that you would need a video to see how to pronounce it.
Eva Edrén to be correct (i'm dutch speaking, i'm from Flanders) it's pronounced as 'vahn', but i didn't bother correcting it because it wasn't really that bad
Ya'll should realize this video isn't only for english people. Alexander McQueen is hard to pronounce for other country especially for french people since they have a hard time pronouncing when two or more consonant are in the same spot together so 🤷🏻♀️
skinny shishtar The Cajuns don’t have that problem either, nor did any of the French speaking Djiboutians that I’ve met. It’s amazing how many dialects there are for one language. Fashion and shipping will take you to places that speak the ‘same’ language on paper, but articulate quite differently, or even change words entirely.
As +Emma X said many people in foreign countries mispronounce Nike. I'm from Ecuador and here people say Nike, like bike, and when I try to pronounce Nikee they don't get me. :(
It's loo-boo-ton. (last syllable is impossible to pronounce properly for most non french speakers, as it's a sound where your nose needs to be somewhat clogged. Its the same sound as in the word for one and the word for bread, "un" and "pain".) Source: I'm french.
Pronounciation aside, I find this video absolutely fantastic. Marvelous use of visuals, music and minimalistic, but very efficient special effects based on creative use of typefaces and transitions. Excellent make-up and stylization. Whole production looks simple but there's a lot of hard work behind it.
I wish they had included ZARA in this. It's a spanish brand and the whole world pronounce it like SARA, but in Spain the "Z" it's actually a "TH" sound...like in "thanks"
Only in the Canary Islands and in some parts of Andalucia the Z is pronounced as an S, like in most countries in South America. Zara is from Galicia, in the north of Spain, so there is no doubt about the pronunciation: the sound TH- in english must be used.
Sonia Nwakanma I thought it had to do with the "Mc" in "McQueen", because the correction pronunciation given is "muh-queen", but the model said "mic-queen", so idk.
In some countries like mine Nike is writen the same way but when we say it the prononciation changes.Has for Alexander McQueen it's just for people who doesn't know about brand names
Bcz in some parts of the world nike is pronounced like "mike" . After some researches i find out that both "nikey" and "nike" pronunciation are wrong. The correct pronunciation should be "nee-keh", but the founder of the brand changed it into "nikey". So since the owner of the brand decided so that is how people should call it (eventho its wrong)
Many countries struggle with pronunciation of anything when two or more constants are together. In the English language it’s more common but Russian and French it is not
I have a feeling o lot of these are pronounced incorrectly. You're better off going to forvo.com, where you can listen to actual natives pronounce names and words.
moss-key-no In Italian, the C is always 'hard' like the English K unless followed by an i or an e, in which case it is pronounced 'soft', like the English Ch. So, the word Cupola is pronounced koo-powl-ah, and the word Chiaro is pronounced kee-aow-roh, but the word Ciao is pronounced ch-ow, and the word Città is pronounced cheat-ahh. :)
Karishma Singh not necessarily, but the majority of turkey indeed identity as Muslim. And about race, it's very different and complex, mostly because of where the country is located the race is very diverse but I would say it's mostly 'caucasian'
The previous creative director Hedi Slimane dropped the Yves and rebranded the label as its current name Saint Laurent or Saint Laurent Paris, the YSL name and logo is only used for cosmetics and handbags/shoes. Looks like the new creative director Anthony Vaccarello has paid homage to the YSL logo on runway once again, but I don't know if Vaccarello will actually rename the brand back to Yves Saint Laurent.
+Kaitlyn Fajilan hahaha I think so, but actually that is not false anymore, it is the way the models pronounce it by their mother tongue, and the pink-lips guy is an English-speaking guy
+Jessica Sebastião understandable, but I think it's just confusing because the whole purpose of the video is to give definitive pronunciations on hard-to-pronounce names. But how are we to know which way to say them if we're given conflicting pronunciations? I just think it was lazy on the part of the creators. They should have made sure the models' pronuncations were uniform and accurate.
+Faith Lapri I feel like the girl who said Oswald Helgasson was pink lips though... anyway, OP (Kaitlyn) they're just trying to show the general gist of it. For example, not everyone knew that the 'h' in hermes isn't pronounced, or that loewe is pronounced 'lo-eh-ve' I mean, the whole time, I'd been pronouncing it "low" because my primary school principal was miss loewe and pronounced 'low' ahahha
Should have included Balenciaga, Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Herve Leger, Zuhair Murad, Ulyana Sergeenko, Reem Arca, Elie Saab, Naeem Khan, Ziad Nakad and many more. . Very incomplete list.
Tiffany Seo Rei Kawakubo was also wrong. its not rray. its more like lei. also Jonya Watanabe is wrong. To be honest, Japanese is tonal language so all of Japanese brand pronounciation sounds weird for natives.
+Ada Pieńkowska not really, alexander is pronounced pretty much the same in most eastern European languages and mcqueen isn't that hard to learn and pronounce correctly compared to some other names in this video.
+Jessica G. Exactly. Well almost. I would make 1 change tho: Since in Italian the "e" is always pronounced as "ay", I would say it's more like broo-skayt-tah. (And Italians ALWAYS pronounce both of the letters in a double consonant pairing like "tt". So that rhythmic lilt you hear is them pausing after the first t to differentiate it from the sound of the next t ;-)
Tricky Woo What? 😂 "E" in italian is simply "eh"(with some variations when it comes to accents). But the sound is not even close to be "ay". Bruschetta is pronounced "Broos-keht-tah".
no I think they're Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds because at the name "Ostwald Helgason," the model doesn't move their lips, and the way the model and the lips say it are the same
"Hard" for people who only speak one language i.e. Americans lol also, a lot of them aren't even pronounced correctly. They're pronounced like an American would pronounce them.
For everyone: Nike is always pronounced "nikey" or "nike"(like mike) . After some researches i find out that both "nikey" and "nike" pronunciations are wrong. The correct pronunciation should be "nee-keh", but the founder of the brand changed it into "nikey". So since the owner of the brand decided so that is how people should call it (eventho its wrong)
Yass, the original word 'nike' (nee-keh) comes from the ancient greek nike=goddess of victory or more easily the noun 'victory'. Maybe you already know, but in the greek mythology there's a tale about a soldier who runs for days from the place where the last battle against the persians has been to his city, in order to announce that the greek poleis have won the war. He runs, he never stops and when he finally arrives, he can just scream three times 'nike, nike, nike', 'victory, victory, victory' before dying. Ancient greeks are such drama queens🙄😂
Shit I love being Serbian. Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and "Montenegrians" can literally spell and say everything right, it's just that our language is like a neutral middle ground of all others, so we can look at any expression or language and copy it accent free into our minds and then speak it out of our mouths.
These are just ways to pronounce names that don't make you sound too ridiculous when you're with fellow American people. The real pronunciations are way different.
+zanoa ses i didnt talk about spelling obviously he changed it as he lives and works internationally but the way they pronounce is not same as we(turks) pronounce.
sbtyfr i think its weird that he changed his name, who cares if he´s international. He was before with his real name. I smell something like, he´s ashamed of having a Turkish ethnicity.
+zanoa ses i cant comment if he is ashamed of or anything else because i have no idea but he is not the only one who does same thing to make others' life easier. for ex most of my Chinese friends have an English name and I don't think that they do it because they are ashamed of being Chinese
I feel like people need to understand that just because a name is native to our english language doesn't mean it is universally known as that pronunciation. To think that just because the name 'Alexander McQueen' is easy because we know how to pronounce it and no one else should have a problem with it is very westernized outlook on the world. There was no uproar when they pronounced japanese, italian, or fench brand names because that is not our native language, and we see that as a reason to be pronounced. There are going to be people who don't speak english fluently and see this video to understand how to pronounce Alexander McQueen because to them it is a hard name to pronounce, much like us for a japanese brand.
iyawakarehen I can't understand that! It seems like it goes against the laws of French! Have you ever heard anyone say "Brugez, Belgium"? Or "vacancez"? "Françaisez"?! No, it's "Brooj", "vay-cahnss", and "Fran-sez." Am I right?
doodl3bugg13 Well, yes, I have heard uneducated French speakers say Bruges and pronounce its s but no one would ever say these as z's like your English speaker brain seems to believe, a s is a s not a z. Also it's /brüj/ and /vah-cans/ and these final s are silent because they're plural marks. You don't say un hermè, des hermès, it's Hermès as in a proper noun that you pronounce all the letters of like you will have to pronounce all the letters of the names Inès or Tobias including the s.
iyawakarehen Ok, no need to be a know-it-all ass. I used "z"s because I was trying to emphasize the use of the "s" sound. Also I just said that you DON'T pronounce all those "s"s and you corrected me as though I had said the opposite....Also, if we really wanna bitch each other out, I can tell you that it's not "...a s is a s not a z...," it's, "...AN s is AN s is a z..." We use the word "an" before vowel sounds in English--- but your "French speaker brain" probably can't comprehend that. Thank you for answering my question, albeit with a fucking attitude. (PS: I know I also have an attitude, but you started it.)
Well the brand is actually called Saint Laurent or Saint Laurent Paris currently, so you don't have to worry about the Yves unless the new(ish) creative director Vaccarello renames the brand back with the Yves (: The YSL logo is only used for cosmetics and handbags + currently and it's said just as is, "Y S L."
Is there somewhere I can buy the music in the background? Does the "song" have a name? I saw the music was only credited as "Tristan Bechet at Cadence NY." As a side note, this video is awesome. Really well done. I've watched it five times, and I was only here for one of the designers, lol.
Ann demeulemeester is pronounced COMPLETELY wrong, and I know this for sure cause she has a dutch name and dutch is my native language. Edit: kris van assche is also wrong Edit: walter van beerendonck too
Ja, ze hebben alle vlaamse en nederlandse namen helemaal verkeerd gedaan, maar ja, Amerikanen zeggen ook "Van goo" ipv "van gogh" dus ik geef het al op.
To those who are confused: Linsey Wixson, who is narrating the video (She also appears at 2:39) has a slightly differently pronunciation for some designers because she uses the native French sounds. For example, Pierre Balmain was French, and he pronounced his name "Ball-mah", but in America, we say "Ball-main." While some of the other models do have slight accents from their homelands, they, for the most part, seem to be choosing the American/British pronunciations.
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The only alphabet im going to teach to my kids
Adam Leger yasss ✨
hell yeah
Yesssss
Disgusting..
Must be traumatizing
1:07 the Japanese model pronounced Issey Miyake correct, and then the lips pronounced it completely wrong
+Amelia Trillo 同感です
+Izumi R. ありがとう 笑
+Izumi R. 光下田！
El .A I'm a big fan of hers (^ ^)
I noticed that. :) She said it like "Izzy."
The Nike one was probably bc in some countries (like mine) they pronounce it differently like “naik” (nah-ek)
same
yep, same
JustSilly rachet it’s Nike
I live in france and they also pronounce it like that
Same
Hardest names in fashion: *aLeXaNdEr mCqUeEn.*
and *nIkE*
rvmin It may be a difficult foreign name for non English speakers. Not everything is about you.
Nahh just *nIkE*
TeukTeuk its a joke
@@eri6656 English is a very easy language. Not many words, including that particular name, are that hard that you would need a video to see how to pronounce it.
Stephen hawking is telling us the alphabet
Versace best in the world
rip
STOP 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good thing you taught us how to say Alexander McQueen. I was struggling with that one.
K Lu may not be obvious to non-English speakers, mate
This is Australia Just another native english speaker thinking they're the center of the world...
@@drea94 My mother language is not English, yet I still find no difficulties with that one.
*how to pronounce the hardest names in fashion with an english accent
it's not Kris Van 'Ash', it's Kris Van 'Ah-suh'
Thanks, thats what I thought, especially with ann demeulemeester
It's actually not pronouced 'Van' but 'Fan'.
Eva Edrén to be correct (i'm dutch speaking, i'm from Flanders) it's pronounced as 'vahn', but i didn't bother correcting it because it wasn't really that bad
rather french
always struggling to pronounce alexander mcqueen. what a hard foreign name to pronounce. thx.
same lmao
I think it's not hard at all since it's an English name.
This person was being sarcastic
sarcasm
And Nike too
0:49 faster poo easy
How tf is that “faster”
yeah but it’s wrong. It shouldnt be poo easy but poo yeesy
Ya'll should realize this video isn't only for english people. Alexander McQueen is hard to pronounce for other country especially for french people since they have a hard time pronouncing when two or more consonant are in the same spot together so 🤷🏻♀️
snatched thats really not true
Clara i mean i’m french from quebec and nobody has trouble pronouncing that name. maybe it’s a french from france thing
Mc se prononce "mac", comme mcdonald.. je vois pas où est le problème
skinny shishtar The Cajuns don’t have that problem either, nor did any of the French speaking Djiboutians that I’ve met. It’s amazing how many dialects there are for one language. Fashion and shipping will take you to places that speak the ‘same’ language on paper, but articulate quite differently, or even change words entirely.
@@mathiasmercier9229 On prononce mal "Mcdonald" askip. On le prononce Mac, ce qui est faux.
This video saved my life. I was embarrassing myself all the times I pronounced "Alexander McQueen" incorrectly.
how?
***** It's a joke
don't know why i didn't notice
Haha
HARDEST NAMES IN FASHION.... "Alexander McQueen
Kevin Kochatt and Nike lmao
Aleksandah Makwynne
Nike makes sense in a way because I've seen many people in foreign countries call it "Nike" as opposed to "Nik-ee"
As +Emma X said many people in foreign countries mispronounce Nike. I'm from Ecuador and here people say Nike, like bike, and when I try to pronounce Nikee they don't get me. :(
ErickVB96 i don't get Nikee either. thing is , its not a name hence why people pronounce it as they please.
Wow the pink lips butchered the japanese designers
Issey Miyake was pronounced soo baldly by the lips
2:55 *_NO_*
That scared me honestly 😂
meme content
The surname comes first.
Okay, but what about Louboutin? I know how to pronounce Nike. 😂
Lu-baton, is probably the easiest way
I always pronounce it as loo-boo-ton but the “t” is kept in instead of out.. wait does that make sense?
It’s Lu-bouh-tong :)
It's loo-boo-ton. (last syllable is impossible to pronounce properly for most non french speakers, as it's a sound where your nose needs to be somewhat clogged. Its the same sound as in the word for one and the word for bread, "un" and "pain".)
Source: I'm french.
Ashley DeBruhl They don't even start with the same letter???
o shit Stephen hawking what's he doing here
OMG lol
Cybernetic wheelchairs are SOOOOO in, this season.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Where?
Great work by Dr. Stephen Hawkings on this video.. 10/10
+fraud1980 LOL took me a moment
Once you see it... :)
HAHHAH!!!!
+fraud1980 hahahahahahahahahaha it took me one sec to get the joke
i don't get it... someone care to explain?
Pronounciation aside, I find this video absolutely fantastic. Marvelous use of visuals, music and minimalistic, but very efficient special effects based on creative use of typefaces and transitions. Excellent make-up and stylization. Whole production looks simple but there's a lot of hard work behind it.
Having an unique name be like:
Teacher: **calls my name (the models)**
Me: **(the lips)**
Frozen Blue Jay 😂😂😂😂😂
I wish they had included ZARA in this. It's a spanish brand and the whole world pronounce it like SARA, but in Spain the "Z" it's actually a "TH" sound...like in "thanks"
Rakky Ripper ??? some parts of spain pronounce the z as z or s
Thara quedé
I'm confused....
Of course it's not included, this video is about Fashion.
Only in the Canary Islands and in some parts of Andalucia the Z is pronounced as an S, like in most countries in South America. Zara is from Galicia, in the north of Spain, so there is no doubt about the pronunciation: the sound TH- in english must be used.
love how "nike" is part of this
Well, in Europe except for England most people pronounce it Neyk/Najk/Nik.
in my country is pronounce naik lmao
@@tobias4906 in France too,
off the topic, this video is just pleasingly good for my eyes
How is 'Alexander McQueen' hard to pronounce?
probably the only "Q" name they thought of
Th-At--Do'od-ho-me^de-th+e-lad&y-ga^ga-es-sho(oo-s
Jason Anaminus Yo-u--C--onfu_se=m.e
Sonia Nwakanma I thought it had to do with the "Mc" in "McQueen", because the correction pronunciation given is "muh-queen", but the model said "mic-queen", so idk.
Sonia Nwakanma not everyone is from the US
The model mispronounced watanabe. I’m done.
Watunavi
Isn’t the lip lady meant to be the one saying it right?
hipnhappenin 666 likes
@@ilovemillionaires when I see someone at 666 I won't even like it if I love it 😂
Aw
How ft is " Nike" and "Alexander McQueen" hard to pronounce??
In some countries like mine Nike is writen the same way but when we say it the prononciation changes.Has for Alexander McQueen it's just for people who doesn't know about brand names
Bcz in some parts of the world nike is pronounced like "mike" . After some researches i find out that both "nikey" and "nike" pronunciation are wrong. The correct pronunciation should be "nee-keh", but the founder of the brand changed it into "nikey".
So since the owner of the brand decided so that is how people should call it (eventho its wrong)
In italy Nike is pronounced like Mike with a N. Fortunately all the world pronounce zegna and Versace in the most wrong way 😂
I pronounce naik
Many countries struggle with pronunciation of anything when two or more constants are together. In the English language it’s more common but Russian and French it is not
I have a feeling o lot of these are pronounced incorrectly. You're better off going to forvo.com, where you can listen to actual natives pronounce names and words.
Actually, the models are pronouncing each brand correctly, each one of them.
guys yall know this is suppoused to be a secret ad for that website?
Fausto Puglisi = Fausto Puuisi HAHAHAHAHAHA
moss-key-no
In Italian, the C is always 'hard' like the English K unless followed by an i or an e, in which case it is pronounced 'soft', like the English Ch. So, the word Cupola is pronounced koo-powl-ah, and the word Chiaro is pronounced kee-aow-roh, but the word Ciao is pronounced ch-ow, and the word Città is pronounced cheat-ahh. :)
@@rodolfopierre2129 No,most of the japanese ones were wrong...
"Puisi"??? WTF IT'S puGLIsi
Yasssssss!
the way they said it it sounded like "poo easy" :D
perché, Versace con la "r" francese??
valeria fraternali grilli almeno non l'hanno pronunciato con la i finale al posto della e
Giusto, è chiedere troppo
How to pronounce the hardest names in fashion completely wrong.
Micol Sinn voila!
Micol 1,000th like!!
Micol why! Which one?
Monique The French Ones. I'm French and when I hear someone saying "That's the way you say it" and it's not it's kinda sad :/
All the Italian ones are right soo
The way the model pronounced 'Versace' was so intimidating! I loved it
Its was completely wrong tho. She pronounced it like a french person. Its VeR(s with a lisp almost)che
Did she just prounounced Versace with a french R? 😂
Yes.
"Thanks! I bought it at "Ver-sayce."
I love how they mispronounced the Turkish designers. Good job 👏
Bulut Senyaprak lol they mispronounced most brands in this vid not just the turkish ones
Bulut Senyaprak are Turkish ppl Muslim? White Muslims?
Karishma Singh not necessarily, but the majority of turkey indeed identity as Muslim. And about race, it's very different and complex, mostly because of where the country is located the race is very diverse but I would say it's mostly 'caucasian'
And the Asian names too.
Bulut Senyaprak Japanese too
Why didn't they do Yves saint Laurent for Y??
The previous creative director Hedi Slimane dropped the Yves and rebranded the label as its current name Saint Laurent or Saint Laurent Paris, the YSL name and logo is only used for cosmetics and handbags/shoes. Looks like the new creative director Anthony Vaccarello has paid homage to the YSL logo on runway once again, but I don't know if Vaccarello will actually rename the brand back to Yves Saint Laurent.
Yves = Eve
Saint = San
Laurent = la-ron
I have no idea what I just saw, but it was great
I was pretty bored when I came here..
Starts with the letter U, we have :
"Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Ossas"
What!?😂
😂😂 what an odd reference
2:55 😂 yaas the surname always comes first in Chinese!
Um, except half the time the models are pronouncing the names differently from the pair of pink lips???
+Kaitlyn Fajilan hahaha I think so, but actually that is not false anymore, it is the way the models pronounce it by their mother tongue, and the pink-lips guy is an English-speaking guy
the models say it how they normally would (sometimes wrong) but the pink lips says they correct way- except X lol
+Jessica Sebastião understandable, but I think it's just confusing because the whole purpose of the video is to give definitive pronunciations on hard-to-pronounce names. But how are we to know which way to say them if we're given conflicting pronunciations? I just think it was lazy on the part of the creators. They should have made sure the models' pronuncations were uniform and accurate.
+Kaitlyn Fajilan lol i think the pink lips say it with an American accent since not everyone can mimic the true pronunciation
+Faith Lapri I feel like the girl who said Oswald Helgasson was pink lips though... anyway, OP (Kaitlyn) they're just trying to show the general gist of it. For example, not everyone knew that the 'h' in hermes isn't pronounced, or that loewe is pronounced 'lo-eh-ve' I mean, the whole time, I'd been pronouncing it "low" because my primary school principal was miss loewe and pronounced 'low' ahahha
Should have included Balenciaga, Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Herve Leger, Zuhair Murad, Ulyana Sergeenko, Reem Arca, Elie Saab, Naeem Khan, Ziad Nakad and many more. . Very incomplete list.
but they did include saint laurent
+luna Nordin I said YVES Saint Laurent. You wouldn't believe the way people mispronounce "Yves"..
isnt it just saint laurent now?
balenciaga is not hard, saint laurent was in there and yves is obvious to pronounce, elie saab is also self-explanatory...
5 lebanese designers in the list you mentioned... you'd be surprised at how easily their names are pronounced here
Is this a joke? Because they pronounced half of the names wrong
The models are saying it correctly though. It's just the American girl. I can't speak for the rest but she got the Asian names wrong.
she sound's French
Lili she pronounced the dutch ones wrong
she ain't american she's french
Tobias she prononced the french names wrong so nope shes not french either 🤣
The video editors of this video did a phenomenal job. Outstanding. Bravo. They certainly need to be highlighted.
RIP to the wonderful designer Azzedine Alaïa first mentioned in the video
finally i know how to pronounce my own fucking name i told everyone to call me Tim xD
Go to France, that's what I have to do haha
Emilie Renee actually i live in switzerland so it isn't that much of a problem :)
+Thierry722 aw that's fine then haha
Today show fashion pronunciation
micki bisinger ûnhb
All Turkish names (Erdem, Hussein Chalayan, Umit Benan) are pronounced wrong
+Turquoise Beauté erdem is pretty accurate imo, the other two are just.. ugh. horrible for a "how to" video.
Canelif Yılmaz Yes indeed, but one of them gets it right the other one who says Erdem says it wrong
Same for about half the french labels...
They should bring the native people to read the name rightly sounds everyone is complaining in the comments section haha
I was pronouncing Moschino wrong my whole life!!!!!!!
samee and nike too, lol
+Niall Sunshine nobody prononces "Nike" as "nailleki", except an idiot I have talked to once
Most American's do the same with Porsche as well.
kimberlee533 Porsche is pronounced like "Porshe"
JustAVoice if by "porshe" you mean Por-sha then yes
Wtf. This was strangely the coolest video I have ever seen. And I have no idea why.
Wanderer I am reaching the comments. Wow Yours was exactly what I was feeling when I started. The colors were “ Amazing”! Take good care
Me wondering is this how the rich people learn their alphabet
are they all wearing clothes from the brands they mention?
Yes!
Think so
No! The asian girl who screamed NO! for example was wearing Chanel
That girl is the model whose name was hard to pronounce. She's not a designer, so they just brought her in.
Geen Naam bag* 😂😂 If this is the first time u saw this that's so late like a lot of celebs wore that in 2010
This video was a visual treat, well done to the makers.
the Asian name pronunciation were absolutely butchered uuuggghhh
Which one?
Monita Sun all of them
she said iZZey miyake lmfaooo
Tiffany Seo Rei Kawakubo was also wrong. its not rray. its more like lei.
also Jonya Watanabe is wrong.
To be honest, Japanese is tonal language so all of Japanese brand pronounciation sounds weird for natives.
ariake iris considering Japanese doesn't have the L sound its not pronounced Lei. Its an R but a shortened vowel.
I thought Balenciaga was gon be on here
It is produced /ba.len.ˈsja.ga/
People pronounce Balenciaga right more than Balmain surprisingly.
I thought louis vuitton
My mom pronounces it *balenchaga*
this vid just called me broke and ugly
um...alexander mcqueen is difficult to pronounce?
+Yolis Bortin To someone with, say, an Easter European accent, I've heard it's kinda of tricky.
_"Easter"_ European?
H K Eastern, Eastern.
+Sahar Hasan I'm from East Europe and it is easy.
+Ada Pieńkowska not really, alexander is pronounced pretty much the same in most eastern European languages and mcqueen isn't that hard to learn and pronounce correctly compared to some other names in this video.
wow i had no idea moschino was pronounced like that lmao
+Moonwalking Rocky mosquino
+Quinton Ayers Just remember this rule and you'll always get it right: In Italian, "ch" is always pronounced as a hard k sound - as in Chianti.
+Jessica G. Exactly. Well almost. I would make 1 change tho: Since in Italian the "e" is always pronounced as "ay", I would say it's more like broo-skayt-tah. (And Italians ALWAYS pronounce both of the letters in a double consonant pairing like "tt". So that rhythmic lilt you hear is them pausing after the first t to differentiate it from the sound of the next t ;-)
Tricky Woo What? 😂 "E" in italian is simply "eh"(with some variations when it comes to accents). But the sound is not even close to be "ay". Bruschetta is pronounced "Broos-keht-tah".
lol.. i had the same reaction.. E is so simple in italian.. lol
Are those lips Lindsey Wixson's?
yahhp
+Laura Happy no
yup!
no I think they're Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds because at the name "Ostwald Helgason," the model doesn't move their lips, and the way the model and the lips say it are the same
Probably, with the gap tooth and all
Its 2:20 AM right now, and here i am watching this.
0:28 “who said enchilada?”
1:20 kris jenner
1:28 llueve
1:33 mosquito
I lol hardly
😂
Nike naikee? i always said naik
haha so does my mom. It's Naikee.
nathalie buzaglo really? then my country has always lied to me, cause everybody we spell naik. It would be weird for me to say naikee.
Naik is litteraly the verb to fuck in tunisian dialect. Usually here they say nyke or naikee
where r u from? Germany?
xxLaurenxx Spain
I dont even get it? Are the lips pronouncing it right or the people?
+Robin :D The lips, most times. Apparently, she's incorrect when it comes to the Asian names.
she's saying it with a parisian/french accent
She tries hard to say it with a French accent, but she fails.
The people
Peezy S maybe cuz she has a french accent.It's hard.
One of my favourite fashion videos. Is this an extended version? I've seen it partially fev years ago. Lindsey is amazing...
1:06
Model : Issey miyake
Also model : *BREAKDANCE*
Glennza Gelasius hahhaha
After years of "versacy" now we have the french R...this is really frustrating
the french R is actually less annoying than "versacyyyyyy"
lol i love how xiao wen ju has her own
X part is funny, the first "xiao wen ji", but the girl say "NO, ju xiao wen"
0:37 is A or E?
+Ruben F in french, 'E' is pronounced like 'A'
Jesse Noily They don't follow the same criteria with many other letters.
+Ruben F Since he is Turkish-English, it's not pronunced as in French. er(from ERic)-them
ilkerika I mean, when the guy mentions the letter name he says "A", not "E".
"Hard" for people who only speak one language i.e. Americans lol also, a lot of them aren't even pronounced correctly. They're pronounced like an American would pronounce them.
For everyone:
Nike is always pronounced "nikey" or "nike"(like mike) . After some researches i find out that both "nikey" and "nike" pronunciations are wrong. The correct pronunciation should be "nee-keh", but the founder of the brand changed it into "nikey".
So since the owner of the brand decided so that is how people should call it (eventho its wrong)
Yass, the original word 'nike' (nee-keh) comes from the ancient greek nike=goddess of victory or more easily the noun 'victory'. Maybe you already know, but in the greek mythology there's a tale about a soldier who runs for days from the place where the last battle against the persians has been to his city, in order to announce that the greek poleis have won the war. He runs, he never stops and when he finally arrives, he can just scream three times 'nike, nike, nike', 'victory, victory, victory' before dying. Ancient greeks are such drama queens🙄😂
The girl in Saint Laurent is gorgeous.
Natasha poly she's Russian and one of the face of l'oreal paris.
Camille Lopez wrong bitch, she's hanne gaby odiele
Shit I love being Serbian.
Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and "Montenegrians" can literally spell and say everything right, it's just that our language is like a neutral middle ground of all others, so we can look at any expression or language and copy it accent free into our minds and then speak it out of our mouths.
Oh really? So I'll look a hubbie there. Nice genes :P
I was born in Brasil and raised in the US and feel i have the same skill u just mentioned. Probably has nothing to do with your native language.
I'm talking about learning whole languages accent free. Not pronouncing a few words or "foreign" names :)
Yes, me too.
I'd be proud of being Dutch, one hella developed country ( at least from this stereotypical point of view of mine)
aw xiao wen's part was cute
Now I won’t blame myself when I’m visiting the next fashion show
This should be going on every TV channel in the world so my ears don't bleed everytime i hear Versachee.
These are just ways to pronounce names that don't make you sound too ridiculous when you're with fellow American people. The real pronunciations are way different.
Were those Lindsey Wixsons lips?
Taste the screen:)!
hussein chalayan is quite wrong but anyways :)
+sbtyfr its not, because he is written actualy Hüseyin Calayan but changed it to Huessin Chalayan or how its spelled now.
+zanoa ses i didnt talk about spelling obviously he changed it as he lives and works internationally but the way they pronounce is not same as we(turks) pronounce.
sbtyfr i think its weird that he changed his name, who cares if he´s international. He was before with his real name.
I smell something like, he´s ashamed of having a Turkish ethnicity.
+zanoa ses i cant comment if he is ashamed of or anything else because i have no idea but he is not the only one who does same thing to make others' life easier. for ex most of my Chinese friends have an English name and I don't think that they do it because they are ashamed of being Chinese
Wow these names are “really hard” we needed this video so much
OK enuf about the pronounciation but fark can we high five this for the editing.. So dope
ive been pronouncing wrong NIKE my whole life
me too ! :D
Nourhanne Ahmad how did you pronounce it? Lol
not Nkieeeyy but Nike. :D
Nike just like pronouncing light :D
Kayleigh Meowski i think it's correct to say "nayk" everywhere exept in u.s.a where people said "ni-keyy"
xiao wen ju was the best part she's so cute
I feel like people need to understand that just because a name is native to our english language doesn't mean it is universally known as that pronunciation. To think that just because the name 'Alexander McQueen' is easy because we know how to pronounce it and no one else should have a problem with it is very westernized outlook on the world. There was no uproar when they pronounced japanese, italian, or fench brand names because that is not our native language, and we see that as a reason to be pronounced. There are going to be people who don't speak english fluently and see this video to understand how to pronounce Alexander McQueen because to them it is a hard name to pronounce, much like us for a japanese brand.
I died at "pOo YeEzY" 😂😂😂 I just can't-
The visuals are beautiful in this video omg
2:45 His eyebrow game is *STRONG*
In Europe it's "naik" and not "nikey" hehe.
but its actually pronounced nai-kee so
+Xantia Larkin Who said that?
Sukossje its common knowledge, just because youre in a different place doesnt mean its pronounced different
Literally every country in Europe says "naik"
well actually then it's wrong
I LOVEDDD the styling for this...sooo amazing! But I feel like they still pronounced Hermes wrong.... The "s" is silent in French!!!!!! "Air-may"
Wrong. In 25 years of being alive and French, I have not once heard a fellow French person not pronounce the s in Hermès.
iyawakarehen I can't understand that! It seems like it goes against the laws of French! Have you ever heard anyone say "Brugez, Belgium"? Or "vacancez"? "Françaisez"?! No, it's "Brooj", "vay-cahnss", and "Fran-sez." Am I right?
doodl3bugg13 Well, yes, I have heard uneducated French speakers say Bruges and pronounce its s but no one would ever say these as z's like your English speaker brain seems to believe, a s is a s not a z. Also it's /brüj/ and /vah-cans/ and these final s are silent because they're plural marks. You don't say un hermè, des hermès, it's Hermès as in a proper noun that you pronounce all the letters of like you will have to pronounce all the letters of the names Inès or Tobias including the s.
iyawakarehen Ok, no need to be a know-it-all ass. I used "z"s because I was trying to emphasize the use of the "s" sound. Also I just said that you DON'T pronounce all those "s"s and you corrected me as though I had said the opposite....Also, if we really wanna bitch each other out, I can tell you that it's not "...a s is a s not a z...," it's, "...AN s is AN s is a z..." We use the word "an" before vowel sounds in English--- but your "French speaker brain" probably can't comprehend that. Thank you for answering my question, albeit with a fucking attitude. (PS: I know I also have an attitude, but you started it.)
doodl3bugg13 They pronounced it right, in France we pronounce the "s". But the model pronounce "givenchy" right but the "lips" don't.
Hardest names in fashion:
Nike
Edit: the real tea is the correct pronounce of Adidas
Ad-di-das
Simple
Adi-Das... created by Adolf (nicknamed Adi) Das.
a-dee-das
Ari Cameron by Adi Dassler
1:19 okay sis, hold on. I can hear "kiss my ass" when im not paying attention.
Lauren Fleur
OMGGGG 💀💀💀💀
Haha I waited for Y and to my horror Yves Saint Laurent didn't even show up. Great. Guess I'm stuck saying YSL for the rest of my life, lol.
Think…. eve sa lora but with the n being like a bit of a whine voice.
Sorry if that doesn't help. :/ I tried.
oh. at 2:13 they say saint laurent! the yves is pronounced like eve.. like christmas eve.
Yves Saint Laurent = "eve san lauren"; basically silent "t"s on both.
Well the brand is actually called Saint Laurent or Saint Laurent Paris currently, so you don't have to worry about the Yves unless the new(ish) creative director Vaccarello renames the brand back with the Yves (: The YSL logo is only used for cosmetics and handbags + currently and it's said just as is, "Y S L."
Savannah Register doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about. You might want to look into that
I like how the first girl that said Issey Miyake said it correctly but then the second girl totally butchered it
All the Italian brands are mispronounced in some way or another
They're pretty right instead
Instead of what?
Fao sto poo yeezy
Ok champ lmao
As an Italian, I SCREAMED with bloody eyes
Whose narrating? Stephen hawking or the satisfaction guy?
Joey Valentin Lol Lol 😂 day
I'm here because my customer said I'm ignorant and I couldn't pronounce Hermes, givenchy, ysl, and bvlgari with a shorter u sound
when did lindsay winxson learn french?
Surprisingly good french accent indeed.
+docd1o1 I am very sure, that is tallent~
Is there somewhere I can buy the music in the background? Does the "song" have a name? I saw the music was only credited as "Tristan Bechet at Cadence NY."
As a side note, this video is awesome. Really well done. I've watched it five times, and I was only here for one of the designers, lol.
This video is such a pleasure, love the aesthetic so muchhh
Ann demeulemeester is pronounced COMPLETELY wrong, and I know this for sure cause she has a dutch name and dutch is my native language.
Edit: kris van assche is also wrong
Edit: walter van beerendonck too
Ja, ze hebben alle vlaamse en nederlandse namen helemaal verkeerd gedaan, maar ja, Amerikanen zeggen ook "Van goo" ipv "van gogh" dus ik geef het al op.
Na Ann demeulemeester gaf ik het al op!
How does one say the names? I'm German, so I guess pronouncing them instinctively would be kind of close?
To those who are confused: Linsey Wixson, who is narrating the video (She also appears at 2:39) has a slightly differently pronunciation for some designers because she uses the native French sounds. For example, Pierre Balmain was French, and he pronounced his name "Ball-mah", but in America, we say "Ball-main." While some of the other models do have slight accents from their homelands, they, for the most part, seem to be choosing the American/British pronunciations.
Thank you. I had have a hard time pronouncing Alexander McQueen.
poo yeezy. yeezy taught me
Such a cool video. Love how it was created. Fun. Cute fashion video
Pause at 0:07. Omg I didn't realize spongebob was teaching us. LOL. dead. Going to hell xoxo.