When you’re as brilliant, talented, and well-respected as NARS Founder and Creative Director François Nars, you not only get to climb to the very top of the makeup artistry realm, masterminding some of the most memorable editorial and runway beauty looks in recent decades, but you get to build your very own beauty empire (he famously launched his eponymous cosmetics brand in 1994); steer your company to commercial success without sacrificing its innately and effortlessly cool DNA; then sell it to Shiseido (which he did in 2000) while retaining complete creative control of the brand, its product development, and the imagery associated with every new campaign and initiative.
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