With her shaved head revealing a dragon tattoo and her generally androgynous look, ve Salvail didn’t exactly meet the classic beauty standards of fashion catwalks 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. Now, the former model looks back on her career in a memoir entitled “Sois toi et t’es belle” — or “Be Yourself and You’re Beautiful” — remembering the highs and lows of her singular professional and personal journey.
In your book you talk about your different ‘identities’. Who is the ‘real’ ve Salvail today?
I think that I managed to get rid…
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