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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 made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images. "

" Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character. "

" I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good. "

" 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. "

" I have always been attracted to faces that are different. "

" I never thought make-up was like brain surgery. "

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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. "

" Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. "

" Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory. "

" You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am. "

" My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts - it's all very spontaneous! "

" A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and deal with reality. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I'm very nostalgic - and I don't care. "

" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "

" Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that. "

" I thought make-up was a very sensual thing. "

" A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic. "

" My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had. "

" 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. "

" True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless. "

" It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else. "

" Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused. "

" 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. "

" I remember this time I worked with Linda Evangelista on a shoot for Richard Avedon. I just put grease on her face, and it was beautiful. "

" I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day. "