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There is a sharp, painstaking precision and attention to detail in everything Maison Balzac's founder and creative director, Elise Pioch Balzac, makes — one that promptly reveals the ambitious beginnings of the French-born designer’s shapeshifting career. Having started out as a press officer at the Paris headquarters of Hermès, working under none other than the then-artistic director, Belgian fashion trailblazer Martin Margiela, in the early 2000s, Balzac honed her eye for trends and creative curation as a fashion buyer for luxury retail platforms Belinda and The Corner Shop. But it was with the launch of her own eponymous studio in 2012, which brought her jewel-like design vision into form, that her relationship with Sydney came to the fore.
