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ticket to paradise; On a private island in the South Seas, makeup mogul Francois Nars has created his own blue heaven.

Vogue

| December 01, 2004 | Bowles, Hamish | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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