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Coco’s
the SUPermoDeL on faShion, mom Life anD BLonD amBition.
BY hEidi hoFSTAd
What makes Canada’s own Coco was able to nally is very exciting for me,” Rocha says Rocha so cool? The 28-year-old of going to the blond side. “But I love to change. I have supermodel works it as a model gone short, red, black, very long—I think I’m going to and modern mom (daughter Ioni stay like this until my hair falls out,” she says, revealing James Conran recently turned the downside of taking the platinum plunge. “And then two), continually expanding her we’ll go on to the next thing!”
empire while keeping up with her family life. With a When the cameras aren’t ashing, Rocha’s sense of portfolio that includes her own model management com- adventure extends beyond beauty, into business. “You pany, design projects like her CO+CO womenswear label, have to be a good delegator, and trust others to do what countless magazine covers, a book on posing, fashion they are good at. You can’t do it all alone,” she shares, awards and TV gigs, Rocha as entrepreneur is dominat- a lesson learned as a woman in charge. In June 2016, ing both on and off the runway. Real Style spoke with the Rocha announced her management and ownership stake newly blond babe (a hue reinvention created by Balmain in NOMAD MGMT, which lists herself and a host of Hair creative director Nabil Harlow) at the red carpet for other models on its roster. “Right now I’m very excited the opening of TWG Tea Salon & Boutique in Vancouver, about my agency, NOMAD MGMT. Mentoring younger and by the looks of it, she is living true to the saying that models has been something I’ve done for many years blondes really do have more fun! unof cially, so the big sister role is one I really enjoy,”
“I’ve never been able to go blond, so the fact that I she says.
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PhotoS, Left: twG tea