Everyone wants to look good, right? What “good” means depends on the person, but for Coco Rocha, it means not having pimples or dark under-eye circles in photographs. An advocate for young models, an endorser of Photoshop-free campaigns and a Diet Coke enthusiast, the Toronto-born supermodel is this month’s Flare cover girl, and she wants us to know she’s proud to be Canadian: “Canada has been a huge support for me in my career, so I definitely like to come back and support our industry here. I think it is really important to let people know about the support.” She also wants us to know that her online presence is a way for her to point out inaccuracies and express her opinions (for some reason, she leaves out her interest in commenting on torontolife.com), and that people should take her as she is—unless, of course, she has dark circles or pimples. This is, of course, our roundabout way of saying she looks great in that Joe Fresh skirt and Ashley Rowe top.
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Supermodel Coco Rocha is not anorexic, okay? She’s allegedly healthy—and beautiful
Coco Rocha (Image: Jason Hudson)
On Tuesday night, at the Bank of America Tower in New York City, supermodel Coco Rocha was a guest speaker at David B. Herzog’s event promoting the idea that “health is beauty.” Rocha and Doutzen Kroes got involved to illustrate the expectations of the fashion industry, which are notoriously unhealthy. Rocha says she felt pressure early in her career, claiming a modelling agent once said, “The look this year is anorexic. We don’t want you to be anorexic, just look it.” She was only 15. Kroes and Rocha are taking part in a Council of Fashion Designers of America-sponsored mentorship program in which seasoned models team up with younger models to help them along the way. We’re just wondering what world these people are living in, because industry standards haven’t changed that much at all (being skinny is still a model’s ticket to being a model—plus-size models, while championed by some, are still handpicked as novelties by international designers). Even the “designers, nutritionists and trainers” that Rocha alleges are around to “support the industry” are just a means to a skinny, preferably well-toned end. To think Coco Rocha used to be “fat.”
VIDEO: Coco Rocha raises $35,000 in 60 seconds ($583 per second)
Coco Rocha is at it again. Irish dancing her way into the hearts—and pockets—of many, she danced a 60-second jig at a fundraiser for Coalition for the Homeless recently that reportedly generated $35,000 worth of support. One of Rocha’s earliest breakout moments was doing a jig at the Jean Paul Gaultier fall/winter 2007 show, and she’s still got the moves. Her legs move faster than ours.
VIDEO: Coco Rocha explains how her jewellery will support victims of human trafficking
Coco Rocha sat down with the Telegraph to discuss her latest charitable endeavour: she’s designing and selling a jewellery collection to earn funds that will help assist victims of human trafficking. She’ll be teaming up with Senhoa, an organization that provides income-generating opportunities, social reintegration and programs for self-empowerment. As much as we’d like to point out how terrible Coco Rocha is at public speaking (she isn’t particularly poised on camera), or how she sometimes dresses like a horse, we think she’s doing something amazing by working with the Senhoa Jewelry Program (one of their many programs): providing new opportunities for women who were once sold into slavery.
VIDEO: Coco Rocha teaches a New York–based magazine (it is New York magazine) how to pose like a model
Coco Rocha was just in Toronto, and we’re wondering if the toilets, photocopiers and facilities management were not up to snuff, because she recently gave private posing lessons to the staff of New York magazine and The Cut instead of us. Check out how they fared, and in the meantime, we’ll be practicing our vogue face.
Coco Rocha channels a majestic stallion for her recent Dazed and Confused Korea cover shoot
It’s official: not only can model Coco Rocha dance with a horse-like trot, she is confident enough to portray a stallion on the cover of a magazine. Rocha recently posed for this September’s Dazed and Confused Korea, outfitted with shimmering horse ears and a dress with frayed edges that resemble flyaway horsehairs. Given Rocha’s track record of being easy to work with, we assume she didn’t buck once.
Coco Rocha will team up with Jacob for its fall 2011 campaign
Coco Rocha’s second lifestyle campaign of the year is with Jacob (Image: Jacob)
There are Photoshop disasters everywhere we turn, but last year Jacob announced that they were creating a “no retouching policy” to help promote a healthy lifestyle (and possibly to avoid a Ralph Lauren snafu). Jacob recently announced something new: Coco Rocha will be the face of its fall 2011 campaign, and she will not be receiving any special treatment. We’re cuckoo for Coco at The Goods, and think she can handle the exposure that a “no retouching policy” provides. She should be fine—after all, she’s been living the Lagerfeld lifestyle (or pretending to).
VIDEO: Coco Rocha, Behati Prinsloo and James Conran make a documentary
No one will ever say that making a documentary is a bad idea when the cast includes two supermodels like Coco Rocha and Behati Prinsloo, which is why James Conran’s Letters to Haiti is already being talked about long before its September 2011 release. Rocha recently leaked the teaser trailer for the documentary—about journeying to Haiti with hundreds of pen-pal letters—to her Facebook fans and posted it on her Tumblr, generating more social media buzz than most documentaries ever will.
Diet Coke teams up with Coco Rocha to promote Lagerfeld lifestyle
Coke party: Jeneil Williams, Coco Rocha and Heidi Mount (Image: Coca-Cola)
Coco Rocha has teamed up with fashion friend Karl Lagerfeld and Coca-Cola in a campaign to promote designer-sponsored, limited-edition Diet Coke bottles. Rumour has it that Lagerfeld once lost 90 pounds by consuming nothing but Diet Coke and steamed vegetables for over a year. The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that he even has a butler to dispense the pop at his whim. We’d like to raise our own Lalique crystal goblet to Rocha and Lagerfeld, ’cause how unhealthy could it be to drink Diet Coke, as Lagerfeld notes, “every day and night?” We just hope Rocha is simply helping out her friend and lining her pockets, not reacting to allegations that she’s too fat to model. Coco, we love you just the way you are.
Coco Rocha named Best Model in the Elle Style Awards, becomes e-buddies with Boy George
Boy George presents Coco Rocha with the Elle Style Award for Best Model. Click image to watch the video.
Coco Rocha, the Canadian model who recently returned from a charitable trip to Haiti with model bestie Behati Prinsloo, was in London this weekend for something decidedly more fashion-world: the Elle Style Awards, where she was bestowed with the title of best model. The award comes only four months after Marie Claire named Rocha 2010’s model of the year.
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Coco Rocha not only wakes up for less than $10,000, she delivers Letters to Haiti
Coco modelling for Greta Constantine last year (Image: Keshia Chante)
Remember when Linda Evangelista joked that models don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day? Well, 20-some-odd years later, models are doing a lot more than appearing in George Michael videos and throwing cellphones at harried assistants. Coco Rocha, the Canadian model who has walked the runways for Stella McCartney, Louis Vuitton and Christian Lacroix, is giving back by visiting Haiti, one year after the earthquake. She will be delivering letters as part of the Letters to Haiti campaign, which is a sort of pen-pal program through which people can offer support to those in Haiti beyond the usual faceless donations. If you want Coco to find out or do anything specific while she’s there, you can let her know in the comment section of her blog.
• Countdown to Haiti [Oh So Coco!]
• Letters To Haiti Provide A Different Kind Of Help [NPR]
See a short film of Coco Rocha’s wedding
Earlier today, we posted photos from the Muskoka wedding of Monika Schnarre, Canada’s first supermodel. Another Canuck beauty, current modelling sensation Coco Rocha, got hitched recently to interior designer James Conran. In France. At a castle. With fireworks. Details from the wedding have been hush-hush, but today, Rocha released a short film of the event with footage of the ceremony, speeches, the first dance and interviews with the couple. Click on the link below to watch.
Coco + James // Short film from Americana Cinema on Vimeo.
See Coco Rocha’s wedding dress
Coco Rocha, one of Canada’s most famous fashion model exports, tied the knot in early June to British interior designer James Conran. The ceremony was a private affair at a castle in France (where Conran proposed), and photos have just been released. On her Twitter page, Rocha has revealed a full-length photo of the Zac Posen gown she wore: tight to the knees, with an enormous mermaid-style fishtail tulle flare at the bottom. The dress looks impossible to walk in, but hey, strutting the catwalk in six-inch heels as a career has probably given the girl some practice.
Coco Rocha appears in “diverse” Louis Vuitton show
A diverse crop: Laetitia Casta and Coco Rocha (Image: Louis Vuitton Women Collection Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Collection © Louis Vuitton Malletier – All rights reserved)
Keep in mind that the fashion world is vastly different from the real world, so when New York magazine dubs Marc Jacobs’s fall collection for Louis Vuitton “diverse,” with a “real, grown-up woman in mind,” they meant he cast models who are mostly white and in their late 20s and still slimmer than the rest of the population but not sickly looking.
Recently engaged Coco Rocha walked in a voluminous pink and grey patterned gown with a sweetheart neckline and thick straps that’s best described as Scarlett O’Hara meets Grace Kelly. Also walking in Wednesday’s ’50s-inspired show were Laetitia Casta, Elle Macpherson, Lara Stone, Bar Refaeli, Noémie Lenoir, Alessandra Ambrosio and new mom Adriana Lima, who range in age from 24 to 46.
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