Francois Nars Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
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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 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'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.
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I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up.
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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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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 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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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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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 photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
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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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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 would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.
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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.