On the last blistering day of August in New York City, Coco Rocha and 39 other models gearing up for fashion week–including Hannah Holman, Michelle Alves, and Ali Stepka–put on boots made for walking to shoot a PSA-style promo for Nine West’s Runway Relief program for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. Teen Vogue took a water break with Coco to chat about military-chic dressing, where she’ll be marching to this Fashion Week, and how you can help stomp out breast cancer.
How did you decide to get involved with the Runway Relief program?
Well, I have my own charity in Canada called Strut for a Cure that helps raise money and awareness for children with cancer, and I also have an auntie who had breast cancer–she is a survivor–so everything coming together, it just felt like a good move!
What advice do you have for how Teen Vogue readers can get involved with the Runway Relief initiative?
What I love about this cause is that it’s not an event that only those on the guest list can go to–anyone can be involved! There’s a limited edition of the boot that is being sold at Nine West here in New York. If you’re not in the city, you can go on their Facebook page to buy your own pair for $199. Or, you can go on Modelinia to help sponsor one of us! Have a fun competition with your friends to support your favorite model and add your own donation to the funds Nine West is contributing to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer for every mile of steps we models take. You can check on us daily, as we’ll be blogging every step.
Despite the sweltering temperatures in New York City today, forty top models including Coco Rocha, Jessica White, Michelle Alves, Hannah Holman, and Lyndsey Scott took over the Meatpacking District for a photoshoot with Nigel Barker to kick off Nine West’s Runway Relief program. Dressed in personally styled t-shirts, jean shorts, and the Nine West boots, the girls forgot about the heat and focused on the amazing cause that brought them all together.
“We wanted to capture the energy of Fashion Week and turn it into a meaningful way to give back,” explained Stacy Lastrina, CMO of Jones Apparel Group. “This Fashion Week it is all about the models strutting their stuff and walking the extra mile for a great cause in the Nine West boot.”
As the leader of the pack, Coco showed off her professionalism and dedication to the charity, shrugging off the ever increasing heat index and her fall inspired outfit for the afternoon saying, “That’s what we do – we wear leather coats in the heat!”
While Coco’s already admitted to her competitive nature regarding the charitable initiative, she’s not the only model who’s dedicated to the cause. Between family members who have been affected by breast cancer and the desire to help a worthy cause, a brilliant selection of models plan to donate their time and stomping power to the Runway Relief program from now through Fashion Week. For every mile of steps accumulated by the models, Nine West will make a monetary donation to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.
Source: Modelinia.
Coco Rocha says she always applies make-up before getting dressed as she can be prone to spilling things.
The 21-year-old Canadian model considers herself something of a make-up connoisseur and says she has a strict regime for getting ready before a night out.
Despite planning ahead by wearing old clothes to get ready, Coco admits she will often still end up dropping something down her final outfit.
“I mostly begin with the make-up. I like wearing something comfortable while doing that because it can be a bit chaotic for me. Afterward I get dressed although I even manage to spill something nine out of ten times,” she laughed to Germany’s In magazine.
The long-haired beauty enjoys experimenting with different looks, and always leaves her hair until the end as she says a smart hairdo really finishes off a look.
“Hair is last; it really holds the look together,” she added.
Coco says her experience as a model has allowed her to pick up a number of beauty tips as she has professional make-up artists styling her almost on a daily basis.
“I love make up! Being a model I’ve learnt so much while watching the make up artist doing their work. I wear complete make up almost every day,” revealed the star.
Source: Stuff.co.nz.
In last night’s new episode of Project Runway, the 16 designers were tasked with creating a look that personifies the Marie Claire reader (someone who’s confident, sexy, and fashion-forward, natch). Gretchen Jones, 28, won for the second time in a row with her arresting, versatile navy linen jumpsuit. Her prize? A 40-foot-tall billboard in Times Square with her piece modeled by none other than Coco Rocha!
MC’s senior fashion editor, Zanna Roberts Rassi, chats with Jones about the inspiration for her look at New York City’s Milk Studios. “It was important for me to create something that really embodied day to night,” the 28-year-old designer of an oh-so-sexy (and oh-so-Coco!) cleavage-revealing snap.
For more on Gretchen’s vision and to see Coco get goofy at the photo shoot, watch the exclusive video above.
Source: Marie Claire.
There’s no shortage of amazing things to download from Glamour these days–have you checked out our incredibly cool new iPad and iPhone apps yet?!–but this one will really get you in the mood to cut loose. In our brand new September issue, model Coco Rocha appears in our “Do Anything Better Guide” to help throw the perfect party–and you better believe that includes a killer playlist.
Here’s what the sizzling hot model has blaring from her speakers when she invites friends over to eat, drink, and be merry:
#1) Carolyn’s Fingers – Cocteau Twins
#2) This Woman’s Work – Kate Bush
#3) All I Ask Of You – Chantal Chamberland
#4) Maybe This Time – Glee Cast Version
#5) Jolene – Dolly Parton
#6) You and Me – Dave Matthews Band
#7) Hello I love you – The Doors
#8) Sweet Dreams – Beyonce
#9) Deep Cuts – The Knife
#10) Let Me Think About it – Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le GrandSource: Glamour.
Check out this article Coco wrote for The Huffington Post:
This Spring my fiancé James and I decided to have a fairy tale wedding across the Atlantic in a castle in the Loire Valley of France. Since this was to be a destination wedding we soon decided we didn’t want to back-track halfway around the world for our honeymoon. James suggested Corsica as a possibility. Neither of us had been there and, to be honest, I’d never even heard of it! To me the name “Corsica” sounded like a made-up world like Pandora, where the Na’vi live. To my surprise the country was indeed real and in fact very beautiful in all the pictures I saw doing research. When we got there, we realized we didn’t even know the half of it.
Corsica is the most mountainous island of the Mediterranean due to the fact that it was created out of a series of huge volcanic eruptions. Picture dramatic cliffs falling into the ocean and rich green mountains rising over the horizon. For the most part Corsica is untouched compared to similar islands I’ve been to. Nearly half of the land is devoted to nature reserves so driving across the island you get the feeling that this is your own private place. On a road trip going nowhere in particular, James and I set off in our little rental car and hugged the tiny mountain roads, making stops at old abandoned stone farm houses and ice cold mountain waterfalls where we stripped down and swam. We basically saw no one else around most of the time, exactly what a couple on their honeymoon hopes for. When we weren’t exploring the island by car, James and I stayed in a gorgeous northern coastal town called Ille Rousse. Within two days we felt completely at home there, roaming the winding cobble stone streets for new restaurants to try. We found the food was mostly a French-Italian mix of pastas, seafood and pizza, and we greedily devoured it all. Both James and I have always hated olives but, for some odd reason, we dared each other to try one in Corsica and we were instantly hooked! I don’t know what it was about those olives, but they were amazing and when we came back to New York and tried an olive here, it just wasn’t the same.
Corsica is very much your own experience. No one is going to hold your hand to guide you or to hold you back. In all the beaches we lounged on there were no signs posted “Do Not Swim Here” which was both very freeing and a little scary. I get rather nervous when I don’t know what else is swimming around me so my snorkel helped me to assure myself that Jaws was not actually right underneath me. The ocean, by the way, was crystal clear and a gorgeous shade of turquoise. I truly loved Corsica, and that funny name will forever be associated with my beautiful honeymoon and first two weeks as a married woman.
We’ve said we are going back there for our 10-year anniversary.
Looks like Lauren Santo Domingo has fallen in love with the adorable couple of Coco Rocha and James Conran, much like the rest of the world.
The Vogue contributing editor just Tweeted about her latest project, saying, “I just finished shooting @Oh_So_Coco and her charming husband for @voguemagazine #cutestcouple, ever.”
Coco and James aren’t the first couple to work together for fashion spreads. Natalia Vodianova and her husband posed together, while Heidi Klum and Seal regularly show off their love and affection for glossies. But the real question is, just what was the Vogue shoot for? Fashion editorial? At home spread? News story?
Either way, here’s to hoping that there are many future editorials in future for James and Coco, because one thing’s for sure: they’re beyond adorable together.
Source: Modelinia.
