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" I have always been attracted to faces that are different. "
Francois Nars
Faces
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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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" Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models - they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots. "
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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 thought make-up was a very sensual thing. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused. "
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" Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet. "
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" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "
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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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" 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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" Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lipstick, makeup compliments the clothes. "
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" I love so much the models from the '60s and the '70s. They were extremely professional, great models who knew how to work the camera so well and loved fashion and had a great sense of style. "
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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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" People have to learn that everybody is the same. If you wake up in the morning, even if you're a movie star, you look like everybody else. The reality is that makeup is there to help. That's what it's for. "
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" I can't remember the first time, but I've worked with supermodels almost from day one. "
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" I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand. "
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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 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! "
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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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Care
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