Francois Nars Quotes
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I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.
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Women are very unpredictable.
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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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Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that.
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Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process.
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Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.
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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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I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
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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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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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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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We love those under-eye circles. It's real life.
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I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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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 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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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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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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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.
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I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.