MY STORY
“Hello!
My name is Elodie Legeay-van Baars. Being the creative mind behind French Creation, I established my business as a bespoke design company specializing in promotional gifts, retail accessories and luxury packaging, that provides exclusive retail solutions for the fine goods industry.
Inspired by the latest trends, our customized collections are designed by a gifted team of professional designers and personalized on demand, in order to reflect a unique brand centric identity. Parisian refinement, creativity and boldness are our guiding principles, ensuring fashionable conceptualized designs for each of our clients.
Let me tell you a bit more about me
Growing up in Paris with a background of French-Dutch heritage, my travels for the past 20 years brought me exposure to exotic worlds, rich cultures, trends and brands. Having been a key player in the gift and packaging industry around the GCC region for over 15 years, I have extensive experience and special insight into my clients unique requirements. With an undeniable passion for trends and gifting, French Creation is a synthesis of my love for details and desire to share my knowledge and experience, thereby, assisting agencies and factories to create an authentic bond with their clients in a unique, dynamic, and friendly environment.
What makes us different?
Combining elements from an accomplished and inventive team, using Promotional campaigns, Marketing, and Production skills, have resulted in special creations that underscore all of our consumer’s trending and marketing goals. With over a decade of experience delivering trendy and premium products for luxury beauty houses, cosmetics and fine foods, French Creation delivers extensive technical knowledge of materials and production requirements, understanding of budgetary and lead-time constraints and the ability to coach your team to transform each brief into a winning achievement. Within our services we always come up with sustainable solutions to lower environmental impact of our design’s production, studying components, constructions, and packaging for our designs to be eco-friendly.
Let’s work together using our expressive and stylish designs that can grow your business and successfully create memorable experiences with your clients.
Yours sincerely,
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Laurene Lepatre
Brand Manager
Amico Freshlook
“Very reliable, professional and creative” Working with Elodie for the past 2 years for our contact lenses brands’ Gift with Purchase has been a great experience!
Her knowledge about the fashion trends for materials, shapes,
and accessories brought together with her experience of the market resulted in her creating amazing customized designs that we fell in love with. She always listened very carefully to my demands to make sure she will come up with the best ideas and proposals to fit my needs. Prompt service and courteous work ethic were also big part in making the projects successful and enjoyable. From a personal point of view Elodie is also a great human being with lots of values which made our collaboration even better and easier. Thank you !
Marie-Laure Chagny
Regional Brand Manager
Maxfactor Middle East
Having a deep understanding of our end-consumers’ motivation and behavior, Elodie translated this into effective emotional designs that are truly unique. She had played a true role in delivering an ideal end-customer experience, creating a new category for the brand: “Accessories” And this turns in a competitive advantage for Maxfactor. Her bespoke creativity and her agility allows her to develop out of the box and tailor-made concept connecting our customers with our brand on an emotional level reinforcing their link. She was extremely patient and listened to the ideas and direction that I wanted to go.
I would highly recommend her for her work, responsiveness, value, and ability to implement her client’s goals.
Alexys McKensey
Marketing Manager
Faces - Wojooh
"I have worked with Elodie for many years and have always been delighted with the proposals and products that she has pulled together for the multiple beauty brands I have worked for.
She's a hard-working extension of your team and nothing is ever too much trouble for you or your brand. She takes away the frustration of working with multiple overseas suppliers and always manages to work within your budget, delivers on time and with the highest quality creation for clienteling. I will continue to work with Elodie and her team for many, many years. I cannot recommend her enough!"
Yasmina Ben Amor
Senior Retail Marketing Execuitve
L'Occitane
With her skills and natural creativity, she worked efficiently, presenting professional options and offering sound advice. Her quick response time and brilliant understanding of our requirements leaded our campaigns to a high degree of end users' satisfaction.
I am particularly impressed with her, going above-and beyond to ensure 100% customer contentment.“
Anyone who takes that extra care to help you succeed is someone worth sticking with.
Chloe Kurzmann
Senior Product Development Executive
Chalhoub Beauty Private Labels
I had the pleasure of working with Elodie as she created part of the Makeup accessories line for Wow by Wojooh. If your clients connect with your brand and products on an emotional level, it makes them want to buy it, use it, remember it and even love it!
This is what Elodie contributed in proposing the right items, and developing designs for our makeup retail accessories line. Not only does she have a great eye for design and conception she is very accommodating, patient and gives honest helpful feedback. I would not hesitate to work with or recommend her to anyone in need of great service!”