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" I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore. "
Francois Nars
Life
Real
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" Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice. "
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Time
" My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had. "
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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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" 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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America
You
Know
" I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good. "
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Good
Better
Look
" I'm not an easily depressed person. "
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Easily
Person
Depressed
" 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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Park
Start
Makeup
" 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! "
Francois Nars
Me
World
Fashion
" We love those under-eye circles. It's real life. "
Francois Nars
Life
Circles
Real Life
" I have always been attracted to faces that are different. "
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Faces
Been
Always
" Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do. "
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Only
Magazines
Artist
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Feel Good
Makeup
Relationship
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Skin
Makeup
Group
" It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me. "
Francois Nars
Vulgarity
Shock
Shocked
" It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are. "
Francois Nars
Someone
Photograph
Very
" I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day. "
Francois Nars
Thinking
Day
Never Stop
" Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best. "
Francois Nars
Personality
Women
Suits
" You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am. "
Francois Nars
You
Love
Beauty
" I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her. "
Francois Nars
Knew
Strong
Her
" A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic. "
Francois Nars
Face
Fresh
Lip
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Beautiful
Makeup
Look
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Beauty
Plastic
Different
" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "
Francois Nars
Beauty
Edgy
Good
" 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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Paris
Late
Working
" You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have. "
Francois Nars
You
Job
Glamorous
" 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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Strong
Woman
Long
" I love to collaborate with artists, like Guy Bourdin and Steven Klein, who don't have any boundaries. "
Francois Nars
I Love
Guy
Boundaries
" 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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Process
Fashion
Creative
" In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts. "
Francois Nars
You
Good
Good Job