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COCO ROCHA - ELLE CANADA OCTOBER 2025

Coco Rocha hasn’t logged this much time on Canadian soil since she was a teenager plucked from an Irish-dance competition in Richmond, B.C., and dropped into the deep end of high fashion two decades ago. “When people ask me where I like to go out, I’m like, ‘My dad’s house!’” she says. This summer, she’s swapped her parents’ Vancouver-area pads for a downtown-Toronto high-rise, where she’s been camped out while filming the reboot of Project Runway Canada. (She also took a quick jaunt to Quebec’s picturesque Magdalen Islands for this shoot.) It’s a far cry from her suburban spread in Connecticut, and her three kids—Ioni, 10, Iver, 7, and Iley, 4—are along for the ride and loving the hustle and bustle of city living. “They think it’s the coolest,” she tells me from the apartment over a video call.

Fresh-faced and sun-kissed in a simple white tank, the 36-year-old supermodel looks right at home. Outside her window, “Toronto summer” (as the season’s been affectionately dubbed by locals) is in full swing: bike lanes brim with fair-weather riders, sidewalk patios buzz with conviviality and parks are lush and verdant. But Rocha’s extended stay isn’t just a personal homecoming; it’s part of a broader cultural upswing for Canada and a renewed appetite for celebrating our own at home and around the globe.

Check out Coco's full cover feature at ElleCanada.com.

Photographed by Sacha cohen

Styled by Olivia Leblanc

Hair and Makeup by Nicolas Blanchet