Francois Nars Quotes
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Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
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When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.
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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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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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Go with what you're attracted to.
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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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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 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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Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused.
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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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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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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 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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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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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
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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 like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
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Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models - they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots.
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It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion.
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I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done.
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We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold.
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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 think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.
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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.