0813NOTPandora

0813NOTPandora_Nars

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Pandora Duo Eyeshadow at NarsCosmetics.com

François Nars, 1959 - . "Pandora." Duo Eyeshadow, NARS Cosmetics.

The NARS brand is renowned for its clever color names, and a source from the NARS Marketing Department confirms that François Nars himself is responsible for coming up with every last one of them. About his product names, Nars says "When I created NARS, I was either going to name them with numbers or give them intelligent names. I wanted to give the products a character and an identity. The names make you dream and transport you to another place. They give the colors a fun twist."

The palette contains a stark black and white with intense color depth. While it isn't clear whether the colors or the name came first, the colors seem to represent the co-existence of good and evil made possible by Pandora's blunder.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.