Nicola Formichetti

"Zombie boy" is the title of this cover story by Florence Abelin featuring Rick Genest photographed by Stéphane Roy in the current issue of Brit fash mag Slave. View more of this series of pictures in Factice #13 (here) and C-Heads #28 (there). I'm reading: Slave #6 (part 1) Rick Genest (part 32)Tweet this!Read Full Story

Photo: Gareth Jones/WWD For Lady Gaga, he got creative with meat. For Mugler men’s recently, he enlisted tattoo-covered “Zombie Boy” Rick Genest. Now, as Nicola Formichetti prepares to launch a brand for himself, he is going high-tech, digital and solar power. “It’ll be very digitally oriented and high-tech,” the Mugler creative director said Thursday. “We’ve been working with the same fabrics, the same techniques for hundreds of years. That’s all great, but we need something new...Read Full Story

Always one to push the boundaries of fashion — whether in his role as creative director of Mugler, as stylist for Lady Gaga, or fashion director at Vogue Hommes Japan —  for his own label Nicola Formichetti wants to take fashion into the digital age, incorporating technology in ways it’s never been used before. “It’ll be very digitally oriented and high-tech,” the designer said of his line, christened Formichetti. Rather than debuting each season during fashion week, Formichetti will launch...Read Full Story

"Balancing between dreams and nightmares" is the title of this edit by Florence Abelin featuring Rick Genest shot by Stéphane Roy for the latest issue of Austrian fash mag C-Heads. View more from this series of pictures in the current issue of French fash mag Factice from here. I'm reading: C-Heads #28 (part 1) Rick Genest (part 31)Tweet this!Read Full Story

"Vapeurs " ('Haze') is the title of this cover story by Florence Abelin featuring Rick Genest photographed by Stéphane Roy for the current issue of French fash mag Factice. I'm reading: Factice #13 (part 1) Rick Genest (part 30)Tweet this!Read Full Story