Francois Nars Quotes
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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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I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
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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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Go with what you're attracted to.
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Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused.
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My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course.
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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 think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.
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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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Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lipstick, makeup compliments the clothes.
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I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand.
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I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
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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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I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.
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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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I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up.
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In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, more Max Factor, that sort of thing. But you have to know who you are and what you look like: if you know yourself a little bit, you don't need to follow trends.
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We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold.