April 2nd, 2010

I ♥ Coco Rocha

Images from Flare Canada’s April 2010 cover-shoot featuring the lovely miss Coco have found their way online – yay! I’ve been looking forward to seeing the final photo selections for this shoot since I posted the behind the scenes video on Lily and the Muse the other week. The small glimpse we saw of it in the video really intrigued me, especially the chalkboard doodle backdrops which were done by Coco’s fiancee, and the final images don’t fail to bring the pretty – both the fun backgrounds, and of course, Coco.

Aren’t they fun? (Sidenote: I would totally do my own walls in the same way as this image. How rad would that be?) Coco is such an expressive model, and she lights up the screen with her broad range of emotions. She really channels the many different ‘scenes’ set by both the playful chalk doodle backgrounds, and the multi-textured and vibrantly coloured clothing creating an incredibly dynamic and diverse editorial.

I adore Coco. Not only is it awesome that she’s Canadian (yay Canada! I get strangely excited/proud/patriotic for awesome Canadian things), and that she’s a wonderfully, wonderfully talented model, but on top of that, she’s such a lovely person. Not that I personally am acquainted with her, but I follow her blog – which you should, too: she’s always sharing behind the scenes footage and photo outtakes – and she’s very open and honest about everything. One topic in particular that comes to mind is in regard to her stance on the sample size for designers and the issue what being “model skinny” means and requires of young hopefuls in the industry. (You can read her point of view here on her blog. A very riveting read.) Not only is she incredibly well-versed and insightful, but I think it’s very admirable and inspirational of her to use her success to speak out about the matter in question.

And lastly, she’s just flat-out ridiculously sweet. I follow very few ‘celebrities’ on Twitter, and I’m not usually one to send them tonnes of messages, or really any at all. I’m of the opinion that they don’t know me, likely don’t care/have the time for someone they don’t know, and would probably hear anything I had to say at least a dozen times over anyway. Beside the point though. I did reply to one of Coco’s tweets once, not expecting a response or anything at all, and not only did she reply back to my question, but she even went out of her way later the next day as well to send me an update on the situation. How sweet is that?

Case in point, I’ve gotta girl crush on Coco Rocha. ♥ I’m cuckoo for Coco! (Rocha, that is. Not Coco Puffs. :P)

All images via Fashion Gone Rogue via Chris Nicholls Photography.

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