Fashionable Translation

We translate Fashion.
Traduction spécialisée pour la mode.

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Fashionable Translation delivers professional translation services from French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese for publishers, museums, fashion houses and media.

We translate books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and website and media content with a meticulous eye for linguistic accuracy, cultural sensitivity, historical perspective, and a thorough knowledge of the technical intricacies of couture and fashion.

We share a passion for fashion, culture and the linguistic challenges of translating a subject that is constantly changing and reinventing itself.

As styles evolve, so does the language that describes it. We are fascinated by the ongoing exchange and borrowing of terms between the Romance Languages and English.

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Denise R. Jacobs

Denise R. Jacobs holds an M.A. and M. Phil in French Literature from Columbia University, and has been translating for over 25 years. She has translated over 40 luxury fashion, jewelry and lifestyle books, in addition to a variety of biographies, documentaries, and television news segments.

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Liza Tripp

Liza Tripp holds an M. Phil. in French Translation from CUNY Graduate Center, a B.A. in French from Barnard College, and a Certificate in French Translation from New York University, and has been a translator of French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese for over 15 years. Her fashion work includes books, website content, contracts, and litigation-related documents. Liza is also skilled in Computer-Assisted Translation (cloud and software-based) and post-MT editing. She has studied language throughout Europe and South America.

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We work on projects of all sizes, from web postings to exhibition catalogues.

Recent translations have included a book by Francis Giacobetti on the painter Francis Bacon (Assouline, pending for 2023), Fabienne Reybaud’s Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium (Assouline), and a catalogue and accompanying book for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibition, Fashion Forward: 300 Years of Fashion (Rizzoli).

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Fashion Forward: 300 Years of Fashion
by Pierre Berge, Olivier Gabet, Pamela Golbin, Denis Bruna

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Martin Margiela: The Women's Collections 1989-2009
by Alexandre Samson, Olivier Saillard

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Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium
by Fabienne Reybaud

We are active in our field.

Presenter, Est-ce que ça cloche? Coping with Culture Clash in French Fashion Translation at the 64th Annual American Translators Association Conference (2022, October 26).

Blog post, with Denise Jacobs, of Clarity in Carats: Navigating the Murky Waters of French Jewelry Translation for the American Translators Association French Language Division Newsletter (2022, December 7).

Presenter, with Denise Jacobs of Clarity in Carats: Navigating the Murky Waters of French Jewelry Translation at the 63rd Annual American Translators Association Conference (October 15, 2022).

Presenters at the American Translators Association 60th Conference. What’s an Oversize Cowgirl Total Look: “English” in French Fashion Language and How to Translate It. (October 2019).

Blog post for the French Language Division of the American Translators Association - Pleats, Pockets and Problems: the Deceptive Ease of Fashion Translation. (2019, March 19).

Presenters at the American Translators Association 59th Conference. Pleats, Pockets, and Problems: the Deceptive Ease of Fashion Translation. (October 2018).