15 x 15

December 18th, 2009

This isn’t a coffee-table book inspired by Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill, instead, the likes of Richard Avedon’s photograph of China Machado to Catherine Deneuve’s Belle de Jour, are a few of the likely inspirations taken by François Nars for Nars’ 15 x 15 anniversary book. Celebrating 15-years in the industry, Nars has published a book dedicated to its successful line of beauty products and the icons who inspire the label; and The Block is madly in love with all 40-pages of it.

Flanking the pages of 15 x 15 are today’s iconic faces in fashion, all of whom where photographed by the founder and creative director himself, François Nars. Featured in the book: Marc Jacobs, Daphne Guinness, Shalom Harlow, Isabella Rossellini, Olivier Theyskens, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Naomi Campbell, Tyson Ballou, Carla Gugino, Dayle Haddon, Amanda Lepore, Natasha Poly, Lisa Marie Smith, François Vincentelli, and Amber Valletta.

The 15 celebrities also contributed as guest editors by stretching their skills as photographers: shooting an image in which interprets the Nars product highlighted in the portrait. Having just wrapped an exhibition at Collette in Paris, 15 x 15 will inspire ingenuity in art and beauty, just as Izzard did for transvestism.

www.15x15project.com