Daily Tip: Learn How To Pronounce It Before Your Wear It
There is nothing worse than seeing a woman in a beautiful Givenchy dress that massacres the name. Why spend thousands of dollars on a dress and not take two seconds to learn how to pronounce the name properly? Nothing screams 'I don't belong in this dress' quite like pronouncing it as ja vin chi rather than zjee von shee. Simply having enough money to buy designer clothes will not make you a 'Style Icon' you need to live a life of style.
Givenchy - zjee von shee
Miu Miu - mew mew
Moshino (almost no one in the midwest pronounces this right) - mos key no
Issey Miyake (one of my favorite summer perfumes) - is ee mee yah kee
Proenza Schouler - pro en zuh skool er
For more an how to pronounce designer names read this ariticle from UK Harpers Bazaar
It's ok if you don't know how to pronounce all of designers names, no one knows everything. The shame is in not educating yourself.