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" I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows! "
Francois Nars
Knowing
People
You
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" I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up. "
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" I have always been attracted to faces that are different. "
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Been
Always
" I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day. "
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Day
Creative
Inspire
" 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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Start
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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. "
Francois Nars
Feel Good
Makeup
Relationship
" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "
Francois Nars
Personality
Nature
Night
" 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? "
Francois Nars
Process
Fashion
Creative
" 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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good. "
Francois Nars
Good
Better
Look
" Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish. "
Francois Nars
Sexy
Transparency
Than
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Paris
Late
Working
" Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process. "
Francois Nars
Art
Passion
Dream
" True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless. "
Francois Nars
Timeless
Elegance
Than
" Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel. "
Francois Nars
Best
Work
School
" My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting. "
Francois Nars
Beauty
Cute
Interesting
" I'm not an easily depressed person. "
Francois Nars
Easily
Person
Depressed
" 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. "
Francois Nars
New York
Paris
Place
" I wanted to be a make up artist. I did it, and the road that I took was quite good. "
Francois Nars
Up
Good
Make
" I thought make-up was a very sensual thing. "
Francois Nars
Thought
Very
Thing
" I'm very nostalgic - and I don't care. "
Francois Nars
Nostalgic
Care
Very
" It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are. "
Francois Nars
Someone
Photograph
Very
" Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet. "
Francois Nars
Eye
Balance
Quiet
" 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! "
Francois Nars
Life
Eyes
Simple
" I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy make-up creates a canvas and can dull the skin. "
Francois Nars
Achieve
Less Is More
More
" You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have. "
Francois Nars
You
Job
Glamorous
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Loved
Makeup
Looking
" There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo. "
Francois Nars
Time
You
Stars
" Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate and have a good basic regime. This is why one of my goals has always been to create a skincare line. "
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You
Look
Goals
" I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women. "
Francois Nars
Freedom
1920s
Women
" 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. "
Francois Nars
Time
Me
Child