It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.
Women are very unpredictable.
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.
I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.
A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic.
Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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.
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.
Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish.
I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up.
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.
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
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.
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.
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.
