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How To Pronounce These Designers' Names
I'm meeting a big vintage customer next month and just realied that I don't know how to pronounce Balenciaga and Schiaparelli.
Could someone break down the pronunciation for me?
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 01:43 AM |
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I've always said the first just as it looks. Schiaparelli is shap-rel-ee, I believe.
There was a site at one point that had all of these with clickable sound for learning. That's been a few hard drive crashes ago, so I don't know
the address any more.
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:16 AM |
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Well, this is how I pronounce them: ba-len'-see-aga (primary accent on "len," secondary on "see)" and shap-a-relli (the "a" in shap is probably
anglicized as a "short flat" a, as in "at," but in Italian, it would be a softer a, almost like "shop," but not quite).
I don't know if my pronounciation of Schiaparelli is how most people say it (there's nobody I see on a regular basis with whom I discuss high
vintage fashion--LOL!), but I believe it is the "linguistically" correct way.
Good luck with your visit!
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:23 AM |
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I believe that Balenciaga is pronouced exactly as it looks with a "soft" "C".
bah-len-see-AH-gah
Schiaparelli is not pronounced the way it looks. I believe it is SKAP ar elli. with a hard SCH pronounced like a "K". I have also seen it
written out Ski ah par elli but I have never heard it pronounced that way.
I am trying to verify this and will add to this post when I find it!
Linn
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:31 AM |
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Linn, that would be very interesting to find out! I do not think I have ever actually heard anyone say "Schiaparelli" in person! I looked online to
see if there were any pronounciation guides to it, and couldn't find any. I did see that Elsa was the great-niece of Giovanni, who discovered the
canals on Mars. What an interesting family the Schiaparellis must have been!
(And you're right that the ci in Balenciaga is spelled "see" and not "cee." The writer is forgetting her basics....)
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:33 AM |
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I, too, have always heard Schiaparelli pronounced SKAP-a-relli.
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:36 AM |
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Agree with Linn on both - friends of Elsa used to refer to her as "the Skap" I believe...err, that's "The Schiap" but pronounced with a hard
"sch". Certainly that's how I pronounce it and I've never been corrected.
Nicole
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:39 AM |
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It is fun to learn something new every day! As I do here. I'm glad I've never had the need to pronounce it anywhere!
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:39 AM |
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I've heard her referred to as "Schiap" pronounced "Skap".
Linn
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 02:51 AM |
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Check here or here
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 05:38 AM |
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Ac ouple more for you:
Molyneux was pronounced 'Mollynukes' most people use the more French Mollynoo but that is wrong (according to Hardy Amies in his biography)
Mainbocher is also commonly pronounced in the French manner as Manbowshay but his real name was pronounced Mainbosher in the U.S., however, he took on
the French pronounciation in the 1930s, so both are correct.
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 09:50 AM |
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Thank you. You guys are amazing.
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 10:11 AM |
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Her Nickname Is & Was : "Scap"
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| posted on 4-11-09 at 09:27 PM |
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You're right about Schiaparelli as "Scap" - that's the right Italian pronunciation. I've had enough Italian work colleagues to have learned a bit
of the language - and almost anything on it's pronunciation 
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Karin
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| posted on 5-11-09 at 12:31 AM |
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Isn't there a site w/ actual wav. files of pronunciations? I thought there was....
Ang
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