Me Magazine - Hong Kong

Would you ever guess that this cover and editorial were shot inside a store? While attending a Longchamp store opening in Hong Kong a few months ago, the creative team behind Me Magazine cleared a bit of space and set up this impromptu photo shoot. Add a little lighting, a backdrop, and me… voila! 

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Coco

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Coco X Cavalli - Hunger Magazine

Last week I posted the music video Rankin created to go along with this editorial. Yes, you heard right - I’m actually singing on this one. Yikes. Here are a few of the kaleidoscopic shots going into the most recent issue of Hunger Magazine featuring the latest from Roberto Cavalli. Stay tuned for more, and go watch the video HERE.

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Coco

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Hunger Magazine - Coco X Cavalli

I’ve always enjoyed the new opportunities that being a model has brought along. It has led me to try interesting things like creating a jewelry line, a documentary film and, more recently, a little foray into television. However, when Rankin, one of my favorite photographers, asked me to consider SINGING for our new editorial I said flat out “NO WAY!” I’ve done my fair share of karaoke in Koreatown and I’ve seen the looks on those people’s faces. Eventually he and my husband did a little arm twisting and chicken name-calling and they got me into a studio in Brooklyn to let my inner Tina Turner take flight - or not!

In all seriousness, I had a lot of fun on this Coco X Cavalli editorial for Hunger Magazine - but do NOT hold your breath for the full length album any time soon ;)

Xx Coco

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ELLE - by Rankin

Here are some more pictures from the Elle shoot I did with Rankin (see the others HERE).  Fashion from top to bottom: Burberry, Rupert Sanderson, Valentino,  Dolce & Gabbana and Erdem.

Stylist: Natalia Osadchaya
Hair Stylist: Nich Irwin
Makeup Artist: Caroline Saulnier

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INSTYLE US - March, 2013
“Glam Squad” by Dusan Relgin

Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova  and I shot together for the latest issue of InStyle in support of our new show The Face. Set your alarms and TIVOs because the hour-long casting special airs tomorrow night on Oxygen, Bravo and Style, all at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Or you can watch it early online HERE.


Whose team are you on?!
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Coco

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DUJOUR MAGAZINE - COCO ROCHA: MODEL CITIZEN

With her strong beliefs and her social-media savvy, Rocha—on Oxygen’s The Face—is a standout in her field

By Lindsay Silberman

The first thing that strikes you about Coco Rocha is, of course, her face. It has those perfect angles, the sharp, sculpted ones that seem to be a prerequisite for becoming a model. But before you can even process the rest of her otherworldly appearance—her flawless ivory complexion, her piercing blue eyes, her slim yet towering frame—you sense there’s a certain depth to her, something a bit more complex.

We’ve arranged to chat over lunch at a casual cafe-bakery in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. She arrives early, having taken the train in from New York’s Westchester County. “I honestly don’t mind it,” she says about taking public transportation. “People do it in any other city. It feels normal.” (She and her husband, muralist James Conran, moved there a year ago.)

As she enters the cafe, the 24-year-old doesn’t walk so much as float—a skill she picked up from her years on the runway. And if the people sitting at the tables near us don’t immediately recognize her, they probably whispered over their turkey sandwiches, “She has to be a model.” Today, the massive fur coat, black pants and stilettos she’s wearing are a dead giveaway.

Her first request is surprising: With autumn in the air, she’s in the mood for pumpkin pie today, so would it be OK if she had a slice for lunch? The Canadian-born model has recently wrapped production for Oxygen’s The Face, a new reality show (premiering February 12 at 9PM ET/PT) in which young women compete to become the face of Ulta Beauty. The show bills itself as giving a more realistic depiction of the challenges and demands of modeling than America’s Next Top Model—a series notorious for its jumping-out-of-planes and posing-with-snakes theatrics. Rocha serves as a mentor and coach for a team of four fledgling models, who compete against squads led by supermodels Naomi Campbell and Karolina Kurkova. Every week, each team competes to win an actual job.

It’s an opportunity the thoughtful, soft-spoken Rocha describes as “surreal,” and understandably so. Her career—gracing the cover of Vogue, walking the runways at the Paris, Milan and New York fashion shows, appearing in ad campaigns for Chanel and YSL—is unusual for someone like her. Rocha is a devout Jehovah’s Witness, as is her husband. “My faith is everything,” she declares. Raised by her mother, Rocha has been a Jehovah’s Witness her entire life, but she wasn’t baptized until 2009—the religion requires that individuals be old enough to make their own decisions before committing.

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Vogue Mexico - Behind-the-scenes

As I mentioned in my blog post a few weeks back, there is no crazier location to shoot than Times Square, New York, in the middle of the day. Here are a few of my personal behind-the-scenes shots from the Vogue Mexico shoot. My all-time favorite is the one where Woody from Toy Story is just passively standing to the side watching me model Dolce & Gabbana. I have a very, very strange life. To see the actual editorial go HERE.

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Coco 

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