Zombie Boy - Freak or Fashion Phenomenon?
While we uncovered last week on CeMAGrity that how Supermodel Heidi Klum turned up the Scary Factor for Halloween by scary body art depicting an autopsied dead body, which of course all came off after the Halloween was over, and the beautiful blonde model was back to looking her stunning self.... but imagine having to look like a dead Zombie everyday for the rest of your life!!
Then meet the 25- year old Rick Genest, a Canadian model known as Zombie Boy for being tattooed like a corpse across the majority of his body. Genest grew up in Châteauguay, a suburb of Montreal. As a child, Rick developed a brain tumor which was surgically removed when he was 15 years old. According to his mother he waited, out of respect for her and his father, until the age of 16 to get his first tattoo. He then left home at 17 after graduating from high school, but it was not until the age of 21 that he would first come to Montreal tattoo artist Frank Lewis, since then responsible for inking the majority of the designs on his body, which they create together. This has taken over six years, Genest spending thousands of dollars on the artwork, conceived by him to be "about the human body as a decomposing corpse – the art of a rotting cadaver.", and "also a tribute to horror movies", a favourite genre of his.
Zombie Boy with Lady Gaga in her video " Born This Way"
The Montreal-native burst on to the scene after Lady Gaga's stylist Nicole Formichetti discovered the tattooed model on Facebook, where he has more than 20,000 fans. He appears alongside Gaga in the video for her single Born This Way, and for once, the singer is the style follower, copying his skeletal body art with make-up.
Rick (left) , before getting his ' Body Art'
His rise from obscurity to fame has been sudden, and he appears as surprised as anyone else. Fashion world has welcomed him with wide open arms. Backstage at the Theirry Mugler show at Paris Fashion Week, he told New York fashion bible WWD, 'I’m super privileged.'
The soft-spoken model told Grazia: 'When I was a kid I fell in love with zombies and wanted to become one. 'The closest thing I could get to becoming a zombie was to get tattooed like one.' He adds: 'I'm so used to them now that I don't see them anymore
While we uncovered last week on CeMAGrity that how Supermodel Heidi Klum turned up the Scary Factor for Halloween by scary body art depicting an autopsied dead body, which of course all came off after the Halloween was over, and the beautiful blonde model was back to looking her stunning self.... but imagine having to look like a dead Zombie everyday for the rest of your life!!
Then meet the 25- year old Rick Genest, a Canadian model known as Zombie Boy for being tattooed like a corpse across the majority of his body. Genest grew up in Châteauguay, a suburb of Montreal. As a child, Rick developed a brain tumor which was surgically removed when he was 15 years old. According to his mother he waited, out of respect for her and his father, until the age of 16 to get his first tattoo. He then left home at 17 after graduating from high school, but it was not until the age of 21 that he would first come to Montreal tattoo artist Frank Lewis, since then responsible for inking the majority of the designs on his body, which they create together. This has taken over six years, Genest spending thousands of dollars on the artwork, conceived by him to be "about the human body as a decomposing corpse – the art of a rotting cadaver.", and "also a tribute to horror movies", a favourite genre of his.
Zombie Boy with Lady Gaga in her video " Born This Way"
The Montreal-native burst on to the scene after Lady Gaga's stylist Nicole Formichetti discovered the tattooed model on Facebook, where he has more than 20,000 fans. He appears alongside Gaga in the video for her single Born This Way, and for once, the singer is the style follower, copying his skeletal body art with make-up.
Rick (left) , before getting his ' Body Art'
His rise from obscurity to fame has been sudden, and he appears as surprised as anyone else. Fashion world has welcomed him with wide open arms. Backstage at the Theirry Mugler show at Paris Fashion Week, he told New York fashion bible WWD, 'I’m super privileged.'
The soft-spoken model told Grazia: 'When I was a kid I fell in love with zombies and wanted to become one. 'The closest thing I could get to becoming a zombie was to get tattooed like one.' He adds: 'I'm so used to them now that I don't see them anymore
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