model moment: coco rocha

i love coco rocha. i think she is a beautiful model who creates such life and movement in pictures, it's phenomenal. she was born in british columbia, canada where she was discovered at an irish dancing competition (she even jigged down jean paul gaultier's f/w 2007 runway).

{coco rocha in allure}

"How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion’s aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it."-Coco Rocha in a letter to the New York Times regarding the pressure models are under.

{campaign for lacoste}

stats: brown hair, blue eyes, 5ft 10, signed to ModelQuest, Wilhelmina Models, Storm Model Management, Elite Milan Toronto & Copehagen, UNO Barcelona, Marylin Agency, Model Management Hamburg, Specs Model Management

{coco rocha in marie claire}

has been on the cover of: V Mag, Dazed, Fashion, iD, Numero, Strut, The Look, Vogue (Italia), french, Harper's Bazaar, The Daily Front Row, Time, Verve Girl, W Magazine, Dansk, Dazed, Elle (Canada), Flare, Glow, Image, Muse, Photo, Telegraph, Vogue (Brazil), WWD Beauty, Les Echos, Wish Report, Irish America, Vogue (Korea), Allure, Elle (Britain), Modelina, Tatler, Vogue (Mexico), WFM and Viktor Mag

{coco rocha in vogue uk}

for more information on this superstar, visit her website