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" I love the dramatic idea of having nothing on. "
Francois Nars
Love
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Having
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" 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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" 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 think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her. "
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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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" 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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" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "
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" I launched NARS with 12 shades of lipsticks, and many, many launches later, I'm still most proud of our lipsticks. "
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" I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done. "
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" I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns. "
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Feel
" Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty. "
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Way
Beauty
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Time
Remember
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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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" I love to collaborate with artists, like Guy Bourdin and Steven Klein, who don't have any boundaries. "
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" It was never in my mind to be famous. "
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Work
School
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