Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model who has walked in shows for designers including Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Stella McCartney and Christian Lacroix. Her first major editorial shoot was with famed photographer Steven Meisel, and shortly after she landed on the cover of Italian Vogue in February 2006. She recently married James Conran and wore a wedding dress designed by Zac Posen.
Quote: “It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice.”
Treasure: My baby bear that I’ve had since I was born and my diamond wedding ring, which I’ve had since last summer. I have to admit, both are equally valued!
Escape: Locking myself up in my apartment with my husband, take-out and a good movie.
Vacation: Africa, or somewhere equally warm and off the beaten path
Inspiration: Watching and playing with children.
Movie: Price and Prejudice—the six-hour BBC version. I can’t get enough of Jane Austen!
Childhood Memory: Singing “We’ll Cry For You Mr. Mida” (with the melody from Evita) to my janitor who was leaving our school in 2nd grade. We really did love him!
Work of Art: Anything by Gustav Klimt.
Song: Right now? Black Eyed Peas “The Time” though I know I’ll be sick of it in a week as I’m playing it almost hourly.
Designer (past and present): Jean Paul Gaultier. He’s one of the only designers I know who is involved with every step of his clothing. He even styles us girls himself—a true hands-on genius.
Misconception (about you): That I don’t care when people comment about my weight or my looks.
Guilty Pleasure: Knowing (and singing) all the words to every show tune you can imagine.
Junk Food: Salt and Vinegar chips
De-Stress Mechanism: Leaving my phone and computer at home on vacation. It’s scary at first but does the trick.
Cocktail: Vodka Gimlet (extra sour)
Party: Any party where I can worry less about who’s watching me and more about dancing to good music.
Crush: I’m still crushing on my hubby Mr. Conran.
Lipstick and Nail Color: Right now I’m loving pink lips and matte gray for nails.
TV Show: I get addicted to entire seasons of 24.
Cartoon Character: Jessica Rabbit
Restaurant: This tiny Lebanese place I always go to in Paris. Mmm…chicken shawarma.
From catwalk to corner shop, Karl Lagerfeld continues to add his stylistic touch. Collaborating once again with Diet Coke, fashion’s favoured designer has created three iconic bottles all fashionably wrapped in his trademark ‘playful’ signature.
Hankering to be enjoyed with this season’s colour block trend, the contemporary prints scream Karl whilst taking inspiration from the Diet Coke heroines- Bernadette, Eleanor and Irene. Polka dots match Bernadette’s romanticism, swishy swirls for Eleanor’s fashion forward stance (v Christopher Kane SS11) and rock drama to tally with Irene’s persona.
But it’s not just the dolls that have been given the Karl touch. The new advertising campaign featuring Coco Rocha, Heidi Mount and Jeneil Williams has been photographed by world-renowned designer himself.
Models aren’t generally known for their word play. But Modelinia.com’s cool new T-shirts are emblazoned with model-related catchphrases that riff on well-known idioms and logos. Now you can Facebook “like” Karlie Kloss or proclaim that “Nobody does it better than Abbey Lee” on your shirt.
Backstage buddies Coco Rocha and Behati Prinsloo combine their names in the “Team Cohati” tee, a take on the pro-Conan O’Brien “Team Coco” graphic. “I like that we’ve become the Brangelina of the modeling world,” Rocha said backstage at Anna Sui. “But I’m kind of obsessed with Lara Stone’s Rolling Stones spinoff — that gap tooth is just perfect.”
The tees are $45 each on Modelinia’s Facebook store, and all the proceeds go to Unicef. Get them while they’re hot: as the Modelinia editor Bianca Posterli says, “We made them limited edition because our girls are too special to be mass.” We won’t mention the early catalog years.
Source: New York Times.
The inimitable Boy George presented Coco Rocha with the Best Model award at tonight’s ELLE Style Awards.
The Canadian model looked regal in a blush silk and cream lace Alexander McQueen dress. Ever poised and gracious, she took the time to thank loved ones and industry supporters.
“This is an amazing honour — most models I feel don’t get this opportunity.”
Then she headed backstage to talk to ELLE… stay tuned for more.
Source: Elle UK.
Is there anything Coco Rocha can’t do? The beauty is rapidly becoming a one woman wonder – from her impressive career as a model to her unstoppable giving heart to her creative talent as a designer – she’s touched multiple different sections of multiple industries, not just the fashion world.
Now, she’s bridging her writing talents from blogging to books and penned the forward to Jeanne Beker’s new book about modeling called, Strutting It! In two pages, Coco breaks down the stereotype of modeling and explains the reality of the job to the world. She’s posted a preview of the new must-read on her Tumblr, as well as her forward!
Fingers crossed that this is her first motion into writing her own book!
Source: Modelinia.
NYJSM interview with one of the most recognizable names and faces in the industry right now. Elite Model, Coco Rocha Conran needs no introduction.
Dr. Vasey: How do you balance health and fitness while working in the industry?
Coco: Well no matter what is “in or out” in the industry, for me its very important to be fit, healthy and ultimately, to be happy. If my look isn’t what someone wants for a job, its fine, I know through experience that there’s always someone else in line who’ll like my look.
Dr. Vasey: Has health and fitness played a significant role in your life from the start of your career or something that evolved over the years?
Coco: I started out in this industry at 15 – I was young and knew little about what constituted a healthy diet and routine. There were those who tried to steer me into negative habits but there were also those who taught me good body image and positive healthy living. I think its important that kids today have positive influences to counteract the negative, that’s one of the reasons I’m teaming up with Seventeen magazine to be part of their Body Peace Council.
James Conran said his fashion education began out of necessity soon after he met his model wife of five months, Coco Rocha. “I had to have a crash course in fashion. About two years ago I didn’t know anything, but then I was like, I better get to know what this girl’s doing for work,” Conran said at last night’s WWD @ 100 Anniversary Gala. By this point, Rocha thinks her husband knows more about fashion than she does, but she still has more clothes, and she hogs all the closet space in the house. “She has her closet and my closet,” Conran said; in fact, the flannel shirt Rocha wore to the party is her husband’s. “I couldn’t even find my own clothes; I was like, give me your clothes,” she said.
Meanwhile, the couple is hoping for more closet space soon: “We want a house with a garden,” Conran said. “We’re talking about Brooklyn Heights or something.” If they lived there, he went on dreamily, they’d only come into Manhattan for work. “You’d never see us again,” Rocha added. There’s one problem, though: “No one wants to buy our apartment,” she sighed. (The apartment was recently featured in Vogue.)
Source: New York Magazine.
