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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 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! "

" It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are. "

" 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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