You’ve all seen Rick Genest (Rico Zombie/Zombie Boy) with his face infamously tattooed to look like a skull, but have you seen him without his tattoos?
Cosmetics company Dermablend Professional created the video below in which they cover every inch of Rico’s tattoos, in order to ask the question; ‘how do you judge a book?’
BBC Radio 4 have been airing a series called Tattoo Tales in which they question why people get tattoos, in this mini interview, ‘Zombie Boy’ explains why he got his first tattoo. Like many of us he went along with someone else, and decided to have one at the same time.
I got it at the age of 16, my little sister – she got a tattoo first, and I went out and got one right after her.
I have a confession to make…I think I am in love with a zombie boy.
Rick Genest (aka Rico, aka Zombie Boy, aka the Mugler Muse) is fashion’s latest unconventional star. Moving from sideshow (used to star in a Montreal Circus) to main attraction (Mugler, Nicola Formichetti and Lady GaGa).
Rick and NicolaRick and GaGa - for her Born this Way video
The Muse of Mugler
Genest walked in the Thierry Mugler Fall 2011 runway show, and he was recently photographed by Mariano Vivanco, (styled by Formichetti) for a spread in Vogue Hommes Japan, Hard to be Passive.
It it these pictures – along with about a million views of the GaGa video and constant stalking of his tumblr – that have made me slightly obsessed with this unconventional hotty. He encompasses two of my loves (fashion and tattoos) in a form that in theory sounds unappealing (sexually not in a human intrigue sense), but with those cheekbones, that body and an undeniable sex appeal, I just – like many others – cannot resist.
And for those of you intrigued to see the before…which I know you are…feast your eyes on this… (unfortunate about the unattractive mouth-open face he is pulling).
I thought long and hard about what I really wanted, what my passion was. And I decided I wanted to be a fucking zombie.
So who’d have though it? I think the skeletal look is rather becoming. With the face above, I fear, he would never have made it onto the Mugler Catwalk or the pages of Vogue (although I am intrigued to see more before shots of the un-photoshopped variety).
Rick, I salute you , your vision and your overactive imagination. You’re a celebration the art of obscenity and the macabre in a high-fashion form.
