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When in 2021, the Balmain teams called me to offer to make Zendaya's dress for the Dune premiere at the Venice Film Festival, I replied: “But who is Zendaya?”
» In a Nirvana sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers, Robert Mercier, 47, smiles. Fortunately his daughter introduced him to perfume! Sensitive eyes and frank words, this artisan trained in leather goods is unknown to the general public but in recent years he has become a name that is exchanged in the most prestigious fashion studios. However, he does not live in the trendy or bourgeois neighborhoods of Paris, but in Torcy, in a house from the 1930s which houses an old henhouse in the backyard that has become his workshop. A haven of peace where paring knives, cutting tips and other hammers are perfectly stored. Don’t good tools make good workers? On the walls, the dedications of Muse, Noir Désir and Matthieu Chedid for whom he made guitar straps…
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