Francois Nars Quotes
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You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends - there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.
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I had no connections, and the fashion world was a closed elite. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke highly about me... she was my first publicist!
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Women are very unpredictable.
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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've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolside or at their home, they always wore a matte red lipstick with practically no foundation - it was how they wore makeup in real life.
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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
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I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.
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My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.
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Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.
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We love those under-eye circles. It's real life.
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I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17.
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I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were still heavily, heavily plastic. The ads were so heavily retouched.
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I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am.
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I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
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There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies.
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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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic.
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I thought make-up was a very sensual thing.
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It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
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Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.