Meet the facemaker the fashion greats have on speed dial. That flush on all the supers' faces is down to this man (sorry Leo). Francois Nars talks backstage, dream muses and life on planet NARS.
Way more than a cosmetics tycoon, more influential than any make-up artist, he created an entire look for a generation, turning Linda, Naomi and Christy into unstoppable forces with his clever use of colour and his ability to transform the beautiful into the extraordinary. The photographer Steven Meisel has him in his squad, Madonna snapped him up for her 90s book Sex, Marc Jacobs adores him, and for over 20 years he’s become synonymous with the high-glam end of the beauty market. He’s not low-key by any means – he owns an island in the South Pacific (currently on sale on Sotheby’s website for £50 million, if you fancy a Bora Bora pad) and the cult of the @narcissist currently has over 3 million followers on Instagram and counting.
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