The Story Behind The Supermodel "Zombie Boy"

Fashion models from Canada, because of his tattooed patterns and the deep eyes of those fearless people, made Rico popular with the help of Lady Gaga stylists, becoming a cool indicator of the brand new style of the fashion industry.

Rico Genest, also known as "zombie boy", has recently become a cool indicator of the new style of fashion.

Rico Genest, from Canada's fashion model, because of his tattooed patterns and the deep eyes of those fearless people, Rico has become popular with Lady Gaga stylists, making it a cool indicator of the brand new style of the fashion industry.

His exit from the new song "Born this way" at the beginning of Lady Gaga made the audience of the world know about Rico, and because of his unique appearance, people deeply recorded his appearance.

Today, Rico interviewed Chinese media for the first time, giving a full account of the story behind the zombie boy and using this opportunity to greet the Chinese audience.

No Rico before tattoo (left)

Rico after tattoos

Rico, born in August 1985, grew up in Ch teauguay, a suburb of Montreal (Montreal), Quebec, Canada (Quebec).

At the age of Rico16, he stabbed his first tattoo, a skull and a crossed bone pattern on his left shoulder.

At the age of Rico17, he left home and became a "Squeegee kid" (cleaning windows for cars or shops) and living in odd jobs to live in the streets of Montreal, Canada.

At that time, he became a member of the underground punk rock association. He often played with local communities in Montreal.

Rico regards the partners in the society as their own relatives. Now they are still very important to Rico, because they call Rico the nickname "Zombie".

Until Rico19 years old, he decided to cook his whole body tattoo plan.

He felt that his body could be a walking artwork, so in the past six years, he kept designing his own skull and face patterns that fit his face and head shape, and he had stabbed more than 200 kinds of insect designs on his body. He really turned himself into a living "zombie boy".

The emergence of this living body art has always shocked and attracted the world.

The tattoo of Rico has been shown in many places, including the famous National Geographic.

He also attended numerous local carnivals and learned many artistic activities in his community.

Rico attaches great importance to his family. He has been very proud of his brothers and sisters all these years.

His sister has graduated from university. Now he is working in a local hospital in Quebec, Montreal. His brother is still at university. Rico hopes to help his family in the future.

Rico friends from the local community have also given him great support. They are now very proud of Rico's international reputation.

Rico's passion for performance was released in the live show. His performances included swallowing fire, lying on beds full of nails, meat pulling techniques and stunts.

He performed with some of the best local artists. He enjoyed the performance very much.

About three years ago, when he was introduced to a performance show, he soon fell in love with carnival scenes in carnival, because he thought it was a good time for him to leave his unstable life and go to a professional performer.

The process of learning performance is very difficult, but he can get an unprecedented sense of achievement in the process of learning performance art. So he actively studied various performances and yearned to use them to entertain the public.

Rico and Lady Gaga perform together in Born This Way.

Rico and Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti

Last summer, Rico was first recommended to be a model. Later, he did some modeling work for fashion companies. These photos were published in a magazine called "Dressed to Kill". Coincidentally, these photos were seen by Nicola Formichetti on the Facebook page (Facebook) of Rico and were soon linked to Rico.

At first, Rico did not know that the person who contacted her was originally the stylist of Lady Gaga and the creative director of the French Mugler fashion brand, one of the most talented designers in the fashion industry.

In January of 2011, Formichetti flew to Canada to see Rico and completed some photos and videos.

The two people talked very well at the first meeting.

Rico describes Formichetti as a very passionate and very individual person.

The pleasant cooperation between Rico and Rormichetti enabled the two to become friends in private and become spiritual friends.

Nicola has opened up many new development opportunities for Rico.

Rico's advertising blockbuster for MUGLER

In January 19, 2011, Rico was invited to take part in the Mugler fashion show in Paris. This is his first time to fly out of the country to start his first world tour.

Later, he was invited to take part in Lady Gaga's new song MV in New York and worked with Gaga to make Rico feel very excited. He felt that Gaga was a very humorous and approachable strong person. Before the shot, he thought that the cooperation with Gaga was very smooth and relaxed because Gaga knew how to adjust the atmosphere and got along well with the staff around him, and played a core role in the whole team. She seemed never to feel tired and always full of spirit.

Rico regards Gaga as her private friend. He believes there is a strong spiritual connection between him and Gaga and Formichetti.

Under the guidance of Formichetti, Rico also participated in the shooting work of the 2011 spring version of fashion magazine Arena Hommes Plus, the famous photographer Steven Klein of New York. This magazine is one of the top publications in the fashion industry.

In March, Rico just attended the Mugler fashion show from Paris and Gaga. He was the only male model on the spot. He was very happy to see Gaga again.

With the introduction of Formichetti, Rico has gained many opportunities to work together with talented people in the fashion industry, and has also helped him establish a wider circle of friends and gained many valuable life experiences.

After achieving success and becoming the focus of attention, Rico still believes in maintaining his close friends who are in Montreal's underground punk Association. They are always his family. He hopes that one day he will have the opportunity to help and give back to these people.

Rico often uses humor to defuse others because of their negative appearance.

Rico likes different kinds of music, such as metal, rap, blues, and local rock and punk mix.

He often listened to the songs of local punk rock band Crimes and The Devils Own.

He likes Tim Burton movies (the famous film director Tim Burton, the representative works are "beetle juice", "scissors hand Edward", "grotesque city night" and "corpse bride" etc.)

He firmly believes that everyone should keep an optimistic attitude, and it will help overcome many difficulties in life.

Rico often uses humor to dissolve other people's negative attitude because of his appearance. He tells others with his own character that a person's good or bad can't just look at his appearance.

He believes that success requires dedication and hard work. Successful people need to sacrifice a lot to achieve one thing.

Although Rico has become an internationally famous model, he still maintains an ordinary, humble heart and deeply believes that everyone can succeed. No matter how ordinary you are, the road to success is open to everyone. He himself is a living example.

Rico has recently taken part in a Hollywood film shoot and is preparing some unique projects.

At the beginning of April, he also participated in several live performances in Toronto (Toronto) and Ontario (Ontario), called "Lucifer's'Blasphemous" (blaspheming Lucifer).

After that, he will return to his tattoo division Frank Lewis to complete more tattoos.