How Eve Salvail, model with the dragon tattoo, broke beauty ideals in the 90s


By AGENCY

The former model looks back on her career in a memoir, remembering the highs and lows of her singular professional and personal journey. Photo: AFP

With her shaved head revealing a dragon tattoo and her generally androgynous look, Eve Salvail didn't exactly meet the classic beauty standards of fashion runways in the 1990s.

But that didn't stop her treading the runway and posing in shoots for some of the industry's biggest names, from Jean-Paul Gaultier to Versace to Karl Lagerfeld.

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