Francois Nars Quotes
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It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
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I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup.
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I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up.
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Working on fashion shows, you work with the designer and try to read his brain - what was in the creative process, what images did he have in his head?
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I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.
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Makeup is very important for a show. It's really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure that it fits the clothes.
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I'm very nostalgic - and I don't care.
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I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.
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We don't tell women how to look but give them the products and inspiration they need to feel and look beautiful.
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I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows!
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It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on.
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I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
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I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done.
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I'm always looking to the lightweight superproduct that you apply and almost don't see. That's the ultimate, at least for me.
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I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid.
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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
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I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.
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Go with what you're attracted to.
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Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
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I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
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I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
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I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.
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From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of colour such as Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell and Karen Park Goude was absolutely a deliberate one. I felt that makeup was universal and should apply to everybody.
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It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.