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See why we’re obsessed with muted lips » It’s safe to say that, come New York Fashion Week, all eyes are fixed on Marc Jacobs—his creative vision acts as a sartorial harbinger for the season ahead. And when, this past September, he dispatched an army of models down his Spring 2015 runway outfitted in his offbeat […]

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See our top picks from the Nars Guy Bourdin holiday collection »

Long inspired by Guy Bourdin’s luscious, glossy work, François Nars pays homage to the photographer with a high-wattage holiday collection.

Growing up, François Nars didn’t waste his affection on teen idols and pop stars. While others were tearing pages from Tiger Beat magazine to make Donny Osmond-themed collages, Nars’s bedroom walls were papered with the cinematic pictures of fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, ripped from Vogue Paris and Harper’s Bazaar. “I was such a fan when I was a kid,” recalls the makeup artist. “I woke up to the fashion world through his images.”

Since launching his namesake collection in 1994, Nars has honoured the late photographer through palette colours, shade names and advertising campaigns, but now he’s paying a bigger tribute to his hero with a holiday collection inspired by some of his favourite shots. “I was really inspired directly by the makeup in those photographs,” says Nars, who translated it into intensely pigmented lipsticks, nail polishes and eyeshadows (from $21, narscosmetics.com).

It’s a fitting homage, given Bourdin’s reputation for being heavily invested in the beauty looks for his pictures: He would inspect the hair and makeup before he even began shooting. “It was a big production, and it always started with the model and the makeup,” said Bourdin’s son Samuel at a preview of the collection in Paris.

View the collection and its Andy Warhol inspiration »

If his product shade names are any indication—Edie, Nico, Ondine and Chelsea Girls—makeup artist François Nars has long been an Andy Warhol enthusiast. Though Nars laments the fact that he never had the opportunity to meet Warhol (“I think the first thing I would have done would be photograph him”), when he moved to New York in 1984, he had a connection to him in the form of his friend Marina Schiano, a former model and muse of Yves Saint Laurent, and a Warhol silkscreen subject. “She was extremely friendly with Andy and told me so many stories about him,” says Nars.

This just in: Nars will reportedly launch a cosmetics collection inspired by the artwork of Andy Warhol. While very little news is available at this time, we do have word that the limited edition collection will be colour-focused and developed by François Nars in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation. Come on, “Campbell’s soup can red” lipstick and “Marilyn Monroe turquoise” eyeshadow! Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until October for the collection to hit counters, but if you’re in need of a Warhol fix now, you’ll be pleased (or likely, horrified) to know he has a cameo in Men In Black 3. (And of course, we have the clip below.)

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Beauty editor Lesa Hannah heads backstage at New York Fashion Week to chat with legendary makeup artist François Nars at the Marc Jacobs show. Watch more backstage beauty videos from New York Fashion Week» Read our full coverage of New York Fashion Week»

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If you have always wanted the French bulldog of a beauty mogul to give you concealer tips or suggest a lipstick, well, now you have your chance. Marcel Nars, one of the faces of Nars Cosmetics and pet to founder and makeup artist François Nars, is currently accepting beauty queries.

According to Chanel fashion president Bruno Pavlovsky, haute couture is making its triumphant return after the recession. “We have new clients from Europe and the Middle East,” he says. “Today, we feel a new interest in haute couture.”[WWD]

Meanwhile, a very blown-away Jeanne Beker live-tweeted the Dior Couture show in Paris. [@Jeanne_Beker]

And speaking of Jeanne Beker, she says she’s only “scratched the surface” of things she still wants to accomplish. Expect two more books and a clothing line at The Bay in coming months. [Eye Weekly]

Peter Nygård is under fire for using a Jordanian factory that allegedly partakes in human trafficking. According to a National Labor Committee report, the International British Garments factory–which sews Nygård’s Alia, Tan Jay and Investments labels–is said to have taken 1,200 workers’ passports, and “has held them as indentured servants.” Nygård International claims they had no knowledge of the allegations and are launching their own investigation. [WWD]

Nars Cosmetics has a new face to front their new Pro Prime line–Marcel. Haven’t heard of him? Well he’s François Nars’ dog! [Stylelist]

Wedding bells are ringing once again at Marc Jacobs HQ, this time for the designer’s longtime business partner Robert Duffy, who is set to wed partner Alex Cespedes at Duffy’s home next Tuesday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal. [Fashionologie]

The video for Lady Gaga‘s “Telephone,” featuring Beyoncé is out. In it, Gaga wears a gigantic black and white striped jacket and a bedazzled G-string bikini–in prison. Beyoncé’s outfits include a yellow latex dress with matching cowboy hat (and eyeshadow!). There’s more, obviously.

Model-turned-filmmaker Rie Rasmussen has beef with Terry Richardson and his approach to photography: “He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of.” Rasumssen ran into Richardson at a party and told him the same thing, in so many words; “I told him what you do is completely degrading to women. I hope you know you only [bleep] girls because you have a camera, lots of fashion contacts and get your pictures in Vogue.” [The Cut]

Steve Madden is apparently going to create the shoes for Madonna’s Material Girl collection for Macy’s. [WWD]

After abruptly shutting down shops at the beginning of the year, Yohji Yamamo has announced that the company will have a men’s fashion show in Tokyo on April 1. The collection itself is still in the works. [Daily Front Row]

Makeup artist and photographer François Nars founded his cosmetics brand with 12 lipsticks. They, and the full line of makeup that soon followed, became iconic, covetable as much for the colours as for the tactile rubbery packaging and clever names. (You may have heard of a certain blush called “Orgasm.”) For the company’s 15th anniversary, 15 celebs (both fashion and the regular variety) posed for photos based on a Nars shade and an iconic reference.