We are delighted to announce Rico the Zombie as FAULT Issue 10′s men’s section cover.
In a global exclusive, Rico will also be FAULT‘s guest music editor for 2012, starting April ’12. Keep an eye out for Rico’s regular posts right here on the FAULT blog. Every fortnight, Rico will post his current musical picks as part of ‘Rico’s Mixtape‘, the latest updates from his growing musical career (including his DJ lessons) and much more…
26 anni, nato a Montreal, "scoperto" due anni fa da Lady Gaga e subito dopo da Mugler. Fotografatissimo, invitatissimo, Rick Genest, definito dalla stampa Zombie Boy, se ancora non ve ne foste accorti ha il corpo quasi completamente tatuato. Non solo: la testa è un cranio aperto da cui si possono osservare le circonvoluzioni del cervello, lo sguardo affonda nel nero delle orbite, il sorriso è ricamato dalle radici dentarie. Insomma, un freak totale. E siccome forse non ce n'eravamo accorti noi, ce lo ha fatto sapere a modo suo, a gesti e parole, scorrazzando per le strade di Milano con attitude da bad guy, cercando - purtroppo invano - di spaventare qualche ciclista al parco Sempione.
We are in a huge fabric hall. An exposed and obviously uncommon character sits there on a couch. German photographer Nadine Elfenbein will soon continue taking pictures of him.
He smokes his cigarette while making little tricks with it. Short inflammations illuminate his face releasing skull fragments. It’s a Day of the Dead scenery.
We are here with Rick Genest aka Rico the Zombie. Thanks to Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s famous stylist and creative director of fashion label Thierry Mugler, Rick has become a fashion icon and is currently taking of over the scene.Covered with permanent ink in the shape of a living dead he surely is an exceptional appearance in the bright spotlight of the fashion cosmos. But, Rick’s way into this business was not the usual one.
As a teenager Rick got diagnosed with tumor. He got treatment and spent a long time waiting, not knowing what would happen. During this time Rick thought a lot about life, death and about himself as an individual person. At the age of 19 Rick started his full-body tattoo project and his own travelling freak show titled Lucifer’s Blasphemous Mad Macabre Torture Carnival.
As Rick explained us, his focus now is to embrace life and to live day by day. Walking the catwalk or doing his freak shows are just two ways of living his live but not the only ones. “I embrace the idea of everything that’s different and helps people open their mind”. Whatever stage it is, Rick will keep going. “I will always be who I am and do what I do”.
Production A&O, Artists and Organisation / Camera and Editing Jens Schwengel / Interview Jan Joswig / Special Effect Make-Up Twilight Creations / Tamar Aviv, Anke Schiffl / Styling Linda Ehrl / Photography Nadine Elfenbein / Assistent Photography Daniel Wilkniss / Rico Zombie Boy A.K.A. Rick Genest @ IZAIO models / Music Walera Goodman
Source + Video: http://www.theavantgardediaries.com/en/article/85/Rick+Genest+aka+Rico+the+Zombie%3Cbr+%3E/Embrace+Everything+That+Is+Different & http://aando-berlin.com/fotografen/nadine-elfenbein.html
