The brand is the baby of François Nars. Originally from France, he studied makeup artistry at the Carita Make-up School in Paris before moving to New York to work. It was after a decade of working with some of the leading names in the fashion world that he launched his own line of lipsticks in 1994. François' founding vision was makeup that encouraged individuality and self-expression, a vision that everyone fell in love with. After the lipsticks sold out and demand kept growing, the brand we now know as NARS was born.
