Behind every great fashion beauty there lies a great makeup artist. In the case of a long string of one-name supermodels—Christy, Cindy, Linda, and Naomi—that magician has been François Nars, a bespectacled Frenchman whose wand is his makeup brush and his alchemy, transforming mere women into glamazons.
Nars launched his makeup line, under his own surname, in 1994. Cash-strapped, for his first advertising campaign he took up a camera himself and found a new creative outlet; eventually, he would shoot editorial for major magazines, including VogueNippon. In 2009, after a ten-year hiatus from the runway, Nars returned in all his Technicolor glory to do the makeup for Marc Jacobs’s fall show, an ode to the heady nightclub days of eighties New York, when both the designer and makeup artist were in the genesis of their careers. “Marc and I felt there was a need to go wild,”[1] said François, who created 65 unique looks rather than just one, cloned. The result: A celebration of good times and great style that was very Nars.
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