Fashion words are notoriously difficult to pronounce and unless you hear the names of certain luxury labels spoken, rather than just written down, it's easy to slip up in conversation. Hermès, Miu Miu, Balmain – there's so much potential for embarrassment.
So, we're glad to have been schooled by Donatella Versace, because it turns out that most of us have been pronouncing her last name incorrectly all along.
During an episode of Vogue's famous "73 Questions" series, which takes place in the designer's brother Gianni's glorious Italian home, she was asked which Italian word she wished English speakers would stop saying incorrectly.
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Her answer? Versace. The correct way to say it is not "Versach-ee", as you may have thought, but "Versach-eh", and her pronunciation does, indeed, sound far more elegant. (Listen to the icon say it in the video below).
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