Eve Salvali

Eve Salvali was born in 1973 in Quebec and has become one of the most memorable models of all time.

While working as a model in Japan in the early 1990s Eve made the dramatic decision to shave her hair and have a Chinese dragon tattooed on to her head.

When Eve went to get the dragon tattooed on her head, the tattoo artist persuaded her to go with the drawings original size instead of scaling it down.

“He wanted to do it the original size it was pictured, which basically took up my whole head. I said fine, but it was so painful. It took four hours, I was crying so hard my head was shaking and he had to stop several times.”

The tattoo turned out to be worth the pain as Jean-Paul Gaultier spotted her and thanks to her unique look he propelled Eve to international success. Eve graced the covers of many of the top fashion magazines from Elle, Marie Claire and Wired.

Eve has also appeared in films and music videos across her career, she played herself in ‘Pret a Porter’ and appeared in Zoolander and a music video for Lenny Kravitz.

In 2007 Eve appeared on the Tyra Banks show ‘Coming Out Stories’ and came out publicly, she also appeared on “America’s Next Top Model’ alongside Tyra to talk about how she became such a successful super model.

Recently Eve made a prestigious return to modeling appearing in a shoot for a Jean-Paul Gautier  exhibition in 2011 in Montreal and going on to walk for his 2011/2012 haute couture fall collection in Paris. For this appearance she shaved her head again, returning to her iconic bald, tattooed look when she was a Gaultier muse in the mid 90s.