Coco Rocha might have just happily accepted her engagement ring from James Conran–but she’s already finalizing her big wedding day. “I’m getting married in three months,” she told us backstage at Dior. “I can’t believe it actually, but I’m so excited.” And where will the ceremony happen? “We getting married right here in France,” the model told The Daily. “A friend has this beautiful house here so we’ll bring everyone here!” As for the dress? “I know exactly what’s it going to look like and who’s making it, but it hasn’t actually been produced yet. But the time is ticking!”

Source: Fashion Week Daily.

Coco Rocha finds out how Justin Timberlake & Trace Ayala brought the road to the runway. Click over the video to play.

Well – here’s some news to start your week off right! Loveable, sweet, and stunning supermodel Coco Rocha got engaged this weekend to her boyfriend James Conran. During Fashion Week in New York, the lovebirds were seen canoodaling around town and at parties, hanging out together backstage at shows, and giggling and holding hands on the street. She took to the web this morning to share her good news saying, “I don’t think I’ve been so happy as I am now. I can’t wait to start the rest of my life with him.”

The duo are classically in love – they act like best friends, kiss for no good reason, and are generally grinning from ear to ear whenever they are together – we know this first hand since we got a chance to spend time with the couple while Coco was filming Modelinia Fashion Week TV. We are thrilled that she has found the happiness she deserves! Congrats, Coco and James! And we can’t wait to see the dress! We wonder if she will design it herself as part of her new fashion line, Rococo?

Source: Modelinia.

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Coco released a statement in response to the New York Times article printed about her.

There has been quite the commotion over the recent articles about me in the New York Times and The New York Daily News. As only a few select statements of mine were printed I find it necessary to properly express my point of view, without outside editing.

I’m a 21 year old model, 6 inches taller and 10 sizes smaller than the average American woman. Yet in another parallel universe I’m considered “fat”… This was the subject of major discussion this week and the story that was spun was: “Coco Rocha is too fat for the runway”.

Is that the case? No. I am still used and in demand as a model. In fact I find myself busier than ever. In the past few years I have not gained an extreme amount of weight, only an inch here and there as any young woman coming out of her teenage years would.

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“I don’t do nudes, I don’t do semi-nudes, I don’t do cigarette shots,” Coco Rocha was saying on Sunday evening before the Diane Von Furstenberg show at the Bryant Park tents. “It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn’t have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.”

Ms. Rocha is a model. Who isn’t nowadays? It used to be that kids wanted to grow up to be astronauts, police officers or doctors. Now it would appear that modeling is the career default of anybody who doesn’t have two heads. Ms. Rocha, according to a well-rehearsed story, was discovered by a scout at an Irish dancing contest in her native Vancouver, British Columbia. Whatever her real name is (apparently Mikhaila, which lacks the show-business pop of Coco), it was quickly altered, and she was sent to see Steven Meisel, the photographer who is fashion’s resident Pygmalion. Mr. Meisel photographed her in 2006 for the cover of Italian Vogue, and there followed in short order a series of high-profile jobs on catwalks, in magazine editorials and in advertising campaigns — enough of them to fill three fat paragraphs on her Web résumé.

The adjective before the word “paragraph” in the previous sentence was chosen for a reason. Despite all the recent blather about promoting wholesome body images and encouraging designers to scale up sample sizes — and a prevalent fantasy that the industry has suddenly embraced people of all sorts and shapes — fat in fashion remains anathema.

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