Makeup artist francois nars biography channel
François Nars' creative vision, which launched NARS Cosmetics with 12 iconic lipsticks in , inspires self expression and imaginative artistry..
The legendary makeup artist, photographer, and super cinephile is the subject of a new must-watch documentary, Unknown Beauty.
Makeup Artist François Nars Opens Up About His New Documentary
Watching Unknown Beauty: François Nars, the new documentary directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, is like getting to peer inside the legendary makeup artist’s brain.
Though it does lend insights into Nars’s childhood and early life—like summers in Biarritz with his mother, Claudette—and the launch of his namesake brand, the film is more so a love letter to the films, images, and people that have inspired his art throughout his life.
Scenes from over 50 films are played alongside backstage footage and rare images of some of Nars’s muses, like Lauren Hutton, Isabella Rossellini, and Unknown Beauty’s narrator, Charlotte Rampling. “The exaltation that cinema brings me is always very present in my creative universe,” the artist says at the start of the documentary, before it descends into a stream-of-consciousness narrative revealing how Nars came to New York and built his beauty empire.
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