Paris Fashion Week can be a gruelling affair; what with shows scattered across the city that never start on time, streets congested with carloads of fashionable types and the endless slew of after-parties. For fashionistas, it’s the perfect opportunity look one’s most resplendent, be photographed and generally be self-indulgently fabulous; but with one slip of the tongue the vicious fashion crowd can turn rendering the most put-together an ostracised mess.
With all the weird and wonderful names that comprise the Fashion Week calendar it’s easy for a non-French-speaker to commit style suicide with one little faux-pas. Here at I Do Believe I Came with a Hat, we’ve selected the most troublesome of the line-up and have created a phonetic guide to ensure your fashion pronunciation is always in vogue.
Published on 4 March 2011 by Agony Uncle