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Byline: Hamish Bowles
When Francois Nars, the star makeup artist turned cosmetics king, sought a serious retreat from his lightning-paced working life, it was perhaps inevitable that fantasy would be the keynote of his quest. For Nars, make-believe is a way of life.
His first adventures in maquillage involved metamorphosing his glamorous sloe-eyed mother, Claudette, into the embodiment of the Valkyries he admired stalking through the heady Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton photographs that French Vogue published in the seventies. Later, as the maestro visagiste of eighties fashion, he transformed Naomi, Linda, Christy, et al into runway deities to fulfill ...