Francois Nars Quotes
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True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
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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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Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that.
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I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.
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My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all.
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I loved working with Avedon.
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The '80s and '90s were the greatest time to be a makeup artist.
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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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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
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I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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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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A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic.
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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 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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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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Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.
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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 never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.
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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 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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.