Hard and then soft, classic yet somehow eccentric, Marco Zanini’s approach to volume and exaggerated proportions this season revealed yet another spectacular collection envisioned for Rochas, a collection where nothing is as uncomplicated as it appears at first sight. Behind familiar silhouettes and a gained sense of comfort, thick fabrics shaped into couture-like volumes were keen on reflecting how clothes can alter a woman’s figure…

We told you that sass & bide was having a social media take over, and they couldn’t have picked a better candidate. In terms of social media credentials you can’t go past Coco Rocha, she even has nearly 2 million followers on Google+ (in other news nearly 2 million people use Google+?). The gorgeous Canadian will be taking over the reigns of the brands social…

Who a designer has on their runway has become something of a status symbol; being able to draw original supermodels out and onto the runway is like saying you have support and friendship of industry greats. If that’s the case than Zac Posen hangs with the likes of Naomi Campbell and Karolina Kurkova, who both walked his runway in addition to regular muses Crystal Renn…

There are models. There are actresses. And then there are boundary-blurrers, the ones whose descriptors are punctuated by /shashes/ because a single role can’t define them. And that’s the case more and more as the concept of model/actress/it girl/style icon becomes the desired (and longer lasting) thing to be. Diesel’s ‘Fit Your Attitude’ campaign celebrates five of those ‘it’ girls who defy categorisation.

With a styling mix somewhere between the Gothic and the Baroque, Coco Rocha covers the debut issue of Flair Germany.

Unless she’s Coco Rocha doing an Irish jig down the Jean Paul Gaultier runway, a model’s talents beyond being physically beautiful can often go unrecognised. But when Maayan Ziv photographed fresh-faced beauty Isabella, signed to Ford models, he wanted to capture her dual talents as both a model and a professional ballerina. The result is a hybrid of classical costume and contemporary fashion. Stylist Valeria…

Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha and Angela Lindvall may all be of varying ages (28, 23 and 33 respectively) – but they have a big question mark in common: what happens once the modelling world no longer wants them? Plus, Anthony Vaccarello talks about his daring slit dresses, Wes Anderson discusses Moonrise Kingdom, and one author ponders the life of a Bachelorette. After the break: 5…

Update: you can now view Coco Rocha’s full shoot from Elle Brazil at the gallery. When you first glance Coco Rocha’s cover for the May 2012 edition of Elle Brazil it’s likely that your reaction is going to be akin to my own: wow. It’s quite the stunning cover. Over Photoshopped in parts to be sure, but all the more dramatic for it. And while…

Doesn’t matter what you think of them – tacky, attractive, ineffective or just unnecessary – fashion and beauty advertisements are special. Especially when big names get together on the same creative platform. Think Mario Testino and Kate Moss – that kind of special. These are the kind that’ll look flashy on beautifully scented pages of a glossy magazine, but when they are bookmarked and filed…

Often so in this industry, supermodels become victim of a fashion genre. The journey that starts with a flexible portfolio somehow plants itself in a comfort zone. They shamelessly start specialising in a genre of photo shoots and can never budge out of it. It’s all by chance, never forced, but it happens. Coco Rocha was starting to settle down in the aforementioned category, until…