20
Feb
The bar for shock value has been set high in today's fast-paced visual culture with its steady stream of outrageous and often appalling images. Yet Zombie Boy (26-year old Canadian model and artist Rick Genest) has easily vaulted over it, with room to spare.
16
Feb
A rough-sleeper turned avant-garde model whose top-to-toe tattoos have been copied by Lady Gaga today declared he enjoys being a freak.
Rick Genest, 26, began his dramatic transformation into Rico the Zombie, complete with tattoos on the theme of a rotting corpse, after surviving a brain tumour that could have killed him.
But speaking to the Standard's new Deluxe magazine, Genest insisted he remained the same inside.
