Bottom line, we feel you.. No matter how passionate you are about fashion, sometimes a roomful of fashion lovers can create a massacre out of some designer names so you’re not alone! Don’t feel bad. To help wrap up fashion week in the most decent of ways, we feel that we owe it to the brilliant talents behind the runways to correctly pronounce their namesake brands..In order to help you never fake your way around verbalizing Demna Gvasalia ( deem-nah vas-ah-liyah), ugh, we’ve rounded up a comprehensive list of designer names behind the biggest fashion brands out there, with detailed phonetic pronunciations below.
Alessandro Michele || Creative Director || Gucci
a-lay-san-dro me-kay-lay
Alexandre Vauthier
aleks-andr vau-tee-aye
Ann Demeulemeester
ann de-mule-eh-meester
Anthony Vaccarello || Creative Director || Saint Laurent Paris
an-to-nee vah-kah-reh-lo
Carin Rodebjer || Founder and Creative Director || Rodebjer
kaar-in ro-duh-beer
Christophe Lemaire || Founder and Designer || Lemaire and artistic director || Uniqlo U
kree-stoff le-mair
Christopher De Vos || Designer and Partner || Peter Pilotto
kris-tuh-fer de-voes
Consuelo Castiglioni || Creative Director || Marni
con-sway-lo cas-tig-lee-oh-nee
Demna Gvasalia || Creative Director || Balenciaga and Head Designer || Vetements
(veht-mohn) , deem-nah vas-ah-liyah
Duro Olowu
dure-oh o-low-woo
Erdem Moralioglu || Designer || Erdem
er- dem , moralee-oh-glue
Ermanno Scervino
err-mah-no sher-vee-no
Fausto Puglisi
fao-sto poo-yee-zee
Guo Pei
gwo-pay
Haider Ackermann
ay-der ak-er-man
Hedi Slimane || Former Creative Director || Saint Laurent Paris
ed-ee slim-ahn
Huishan Zhang
hway-shan tzahng
Hussein Chalayan
hu-se-in cha-la-yan
Jonathan Simkhai
jon-a-thon sim-ky (like “eye”)
Maria Grazia Chiuri || Creative Director || C
maria grah-tzia key-yuri
Markus Lupfer
mar-kus lupp-fur (as in “up” and fur, like, “animal fur”)
Marta Marques || Co-Founder, Marques’Almeida
mar-ta mar-kes
Mary Katrantzou
mar-ee ka-tran-zoo
Alexis Mabille, Alexi-Mabeel
Jacquemus, ja-keh-muhs
Ouai
way
Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski || Creative Director || Hermès
nah-dej van-hee sy-bool-ski
Nicolas Ghesquière || Artistic Director of Women’s Collections || Louis Vuitton
nee-ko-la jes-ke-air (with a soft “j”)
Olivier Rousteing || Creative Director || Balmain
oh-liv-ee-aye rhoos-tain
Paulo Almeida || Co-Founder || Marques’Almeida
pow-lo al-may-da
Phoebe Philo || Creative Director || Céline
fee-bee file-oh
Pierpaolo Piccioli || Creative Director || Valentino
pier-paolo pea-shioli
Prabal Gurung
prah-bull (like “trouble”) goo-roong
Raf Simons || Chief Creative Officer || Calvin Klein
rauf see-mon-s
Riccardo Tisci || Creative Director || Givenchy
rik-ar-do tish-ee
Robert Tagliapietra || Designer and Co-Founder || now-closed Costello Tagliapietra and recently launched JCRT
ro-bert tag-lee-ya-pee-ay-tra
Roksanda Ilincic || Designer and Founder || Roksanda
rock-sand-a ill-in-chich
Simone Rocha
see-mone ro-sha
Tadashi Shoji
ta-da-shee sho-jee
Thakoon Panichgul || Designer and Founder || Thakoon
tah-koon pah-nich-gull
Thea Bregazzi || Designer and Co-Founder || Preen
thee-ah bru-gahz-ee
Timo Weiland || Designer and Co-Founder || Timo Weiland
tee-mo why-land
Ulyana Sergeenko
uhl-yahn-uh se-air-jane-koh
Veronique Branquinho
ver-on-neek brahn-kin-oh
Vika Gazinskaya
vee-kah gahv-in-skee-yah
Yigal Azrouël
yee-gal ahz-roo-el
Maje
maaj
Leofller Randall
Lef-ler randall
Loewe
low-eh-ve
Silvia Tcherassi
salvia tsherazzy
Renee Caovilla
ray-nay cow-villa
Chiara Ferragni
Kee-arah Fare-ah-nee
Sies Marjan
Sees (second ’s’ sounds like a ‘c’) Mar-jan (the ‘r’ is in French accent)
Emilia Wickstead
Emilia Wik-sted
Adam Lippes
Adam lip-uhs
Baja East
bah-ha eest
Cedric Charlier
sed-rick shar-li-yay
Courrèges
koor-ahj
Monse
mon-say
Rosie Assoulin
row-see ah-soo-lin
Johanna Ortiz
jo-ah-nah or-teez
Rhié
ree
Sacai
suh-kai
Kaelen
kay-lin
Vetements
vet-mohn
Yeezy
yeezi
