Rico the Zombie
Over the weekend I’m going to be DJing in Moscow at the Soho Rooms and the Rolling Stones Bar. I’m also going to be hanging out at the International Tattoo Festival there for a few days.
While I’m there, I’ll definitely be playing Marseillaise rapper Keny Arkana‘s track ‘La Rage’. It’s so cool to hear someone spitting about something they really care about – she’s part of alter-globalisation music collective La Rage du Peuple. The track always gets people fired up, ready to party and tear the place down. Moscow, are you ready for this?!
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Photographer: Stéphane Roy Photography
Model: Rico The Zombie
Stylism: Mise en Cage
Stylists: Jackie Tadeoni & Cyam Créations
Assistant: Bérénice V.
Rico the Zombie (aka Rick Genest) currently among the world’s most recognisable models in the fashion industry who came from obscurity (as far as the fashion industry is concerned). Ever since Nicola Formichetti & Co. plucked him from Canada’s centre of the coolest underground culture of Montreal, the tattooed punk rock star has risen to grand heights that would have seemed unimaginable even in his wildest thoughts.
From shooting advertising industry award nominated ad campaigns for l’Oreal’s ‘Dermablend’ (www.gobeyondthecover.com – 15M views on YouTube) and headlining fashion shows in Paris, New York, Milan and Berlin during the day, to rocking out on underground DJ sets and circus ‘freak show’ acts at night, the Zombie Boy’s been living a pretty exciting afterlife. Throw in his work with Lady Gaga‘s “Born This Way” as well as possible future collaborations with the world’s biggest global pop star in the pipeline and you can see why we’re so pleased to be able to announce Rico as our guest music editor for 2012.
But hey, Rico‘s not just about modelling and fashion – although he revealed to us in our exclusive interview (available on the FAULT Film page) that he makes his own clothes. In addition to a great musical taste and some tasty – if raw – Djing skills, his general savoir faire when it comes to popular culture, in terms of idiosyncratic style, good taste and an innate ability to entertain, is the embodiment of the FAULT philosophy.
Follow Rico‘s music blogs every fortnight right here on FAULT Online. More to come in the Underground Issue this Summer…and beyond…
“I’m totally psyched to work with FAULT as its guest Music Editor for Summer. Every two weeks, I’ll be sending some music I’ve been listening to your way. Later this month I’ll be DJ Hosting and hopefully improving on my new passion at the after party at Moscow’s International Tattoo Convention. Depends on the crowd but here’s hoping I can drop some Ill Bill…”
A androginia vem ganhando tanta força na moda que impulsionou a carreira de modelos como o sérvio com traços efemininados Andrej Pejic, bastante atuante em campanhas masculinas e femininas – vai do gosto do freguês. A nova pista de que não diferenciar gêneros é superatual está em Nova York, onde foi inaugurada a ODD.
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
