This week Coco Rocha woke up to see the New York Daily News asking the city if she is too fat to be a runway model. After an interview with the New York Times, the Canadian model has been making headlines on the issue.

At size four, Coco Rocha has modeled for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. She isn’t letting the fashion industry determine her size any longer. In fact she has just released a statement on her blog. In the well written blog post, she points out that she’s busier than ever as a model, but that the issue of models weight is and will always be a concern to her. She said:

“Surely we all see how morally wrong it is for an adult to convince an already thin 15 year old that she is actually too fat. It is unforgivable that an adult should demand that the girl unnaturally lose the weight vital to keep her body functioning properly. How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashions aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.”

On the topic of models speaking out ,Coco Rocha also said:

“In the past models have spoken out on this issue, only to be accused of saying something because their careers were on the brink of extinction. This is not so in my case. I actually first spoke out about this two years ago at the peak of what a model would consider the ideal career and there was a reaction - those who were the worst offenders suddenly asked me to work for them! This was a public relations ploy and I wasn’t prepared to fall for that. I said “No, lets go a few seasons, lets see if you change, then I will work with you”. They didn’t change. I haven’t worked for them.

Of my generation of models I’m exactly where I need to be in my career and I’m grateful to use my position to actively speak out against this with the support of the CFDA. My sincere hope is that through our efforts young models will one day be spared the humiliation, the risky weight loss, the depression that comes along with anorexia and the misery of abandonment by an industry ashamed to see them turn into actual women.”

“The CFDA has set codes in place for their members and I’d love to see the entire industry follow. Society legislates a lot of things - no steroid use in baseball is one example - its only reasonable that there be rules of conduct to keep the fashion industry healthy.”

ZERO sample size is the standard for runway and photo shoots. The Council Of American Fashion Designers held a conference last week to discuss whether they should move it up to a size four. We applaud Coco Rocha’s strong and brave stand on the issue of weight in the modelling industry.

This is only the latest in a long debate over weight issues in the fashion industry. Last year, Ralph Lauren got caught over photoshopping a model and Demi Moore appeared on the cover of W Magazine apparently photoshopped. Karl Lagerfeld added to the debate saying “no one wants to see round women.”  Model Lara Stone was also criticized for her size four weight. Changes are coming as seen in magazines refusing to cast anorexic models and designers slowly adopting fuller models, but is it coming too slowly?

Photos clockwise: Marc Jacobs & Robert Duffy at after party via Robert C Duffy, Coco Rocha getting ready for Zac Posen show via Coco Rocha, Chris Benz show via Mr. Joe Zee, Anna Wintour & designer Alexander Wang via Kari Estrada

With New York Fashion Week in full swing, Real Style Network has been following the fashion twitter feed on our blog. From celebrity sightings to runway preparation, here is a look at what the fashion insiders are tweeting about from New York Fashion Week.

Mr. Joe Zee is the creative director of Elle magazine, WWD is the industry fashion authority:

womensweardaily Jeff Beck, Tory Burch, Cindy Sherman and David Byrne sat front row at Narciso Rodriguez’s fall 2010 show: http://bit.ly/9M4KY9 #nyfw

womensweardaily Natalie Portman, Bono, Kirsten Dunst + Jason Schwartzman are at the Rodarte party. Who knew Bono did knits.

mrjoezee 100 people. 20 looks. Chic, simple sophistication. MaryKate & Ashley’s first show for The Row dazzled w/ beautifully made coats & dresses.

mrjoezee These Rodarte girls are anything but minimalists. Such a beautifully executed collection of thrift-store chic w/ elements of arts & crafts.

photo via Joe Zee

womensweardaily They’re sprinkling stones or rice or something on the Rodarte runway. Also, lighting candles.

womensweardaily Kim Kardashian in a leather, corseted, hooded minidress of her own design backstage at the Bebe-Kardashian show.

womensweardaily JWOW from the “Jersey Shore” causes a frenzy at the Bebe-Kardashian show.

photo via Womens Wear Daily

mrjoezee Insane gowns at Badgley. All sparkles and shine. They’re just BEGGING for a red carpet. Not a snowstorm.

mrjoezee Backstage at Elie Tahari and morning frenzy has started. Looks so cute! Fur flying everywhere - on coats, bags, shoes and boots!

womensweardaily Revelers are playing ping pong and dancing to Billy Idol at Chris Benz’s after party at Spin.

We told you earlier that Canadian model Coco Rocha was starting her own fashion line. Last we heard, she was asking fans for help coming up with a name for her debut line. Now it seems that Coco Rocha is almost ready to reveal her designs to the world.

New York Fashion reports that Coco Rocha has picked a name, but she can’t reveal yet. She says that her lawyers are finalizing things before she will tell us all the name of her fashion line.

Coco Rocha says that she hopes to show her line in September at New York Fashion Week. She describes the style of her designs by saying: I can tell you that I love the 1800s, costume-y, but elegant, Victorian-inspired clothes. When you wear that style out today, it’s definitely considered costume. I’m trying to take pieces and elements of that era and put it into a modern woman. I also believe 100% that we need affordable clothing. High fashion affordable—that is my big goal for this coming summer.

We will get our first peek at Coco Rocha the fashion designer on The Grammy red carpet. Coco Rocha will be doing red carpet coverage for ET Canada on January 31st and Fab Sugar says that she plans on wearing one of her own designs for the event.

She posted a teaser picture on her blog showing a blue sleeve of the dress and wrote: My team and I have been hard at work getting the dress together these last few weeks. Just this morning we had another fitting and I have to tell you, it has been so wonderful to see the picture in my head find its way into reality.

We can be skeptical of celebrity fashion lines, but we are excited about Coco Rocha’s fashion line. She is a Canadian girl with great personal style and the idea of affordable high fashion is becoming very popular with all of the lower priced designer lines.

[Photo of Coco Rocha courtesy of PR Photos]

British television star Alexa Chung has been named 2009’s most stylish woman by Vogue magazine. Her MTV show was canceled this year, but she was all over the fashion world walking for Vivienne Westwood and becoming the face of DKNY Jeans. Others who made the Vogue list this year included Sarah Jessica Parker, Emma Watson, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss and more.

In another best of list, Vogue Paris named the top supermodels of the decade. Their list is made of 30 models that have impacted fashion in the 2000’s. This list includes Agyness Deyn, Lara Stone, Gisele Bundchen and Canadian beauty Coco Rocha.

We already told you about PETA naming their worst dressed celebrities, but they have also announced the best. Talk show host Ellen Degeneres and fashion guru Tim Gunn were named Woman and Man of the Year by PETA according to E!Online. Gunn prefers to work with faux leather and fur in his style.

Canadian model Coco Rocha has been the it girl of fashion for quite some time now.

In her time working it on the runway, she must have learned a few things because now Coco is taking on a new task. Coco Rocha announced on her blog that she will be launching her own fashion line. She has had a lot of experience working with the world’s top designers including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Dior, so she knows what it takes to make it.

On Oh So Coco, Rocha has asked readers to help her name her first line. So far most readers suggest she use her blog name Oh So Coco to her line.

She gives just a sneak peak of her sketches in a video posted on her blog, giving you the briefest taste of what’s in store.

The fashion world can’t get enough of Coco Rocha and expectations will be high for her own line.

Watch her request from fans for a name for the line and peak at her sketches here.

It’s Jessica Time!       

It seems that this is the year of the Canadian Model: Daria Werbovy , Coco Rocha, Linda and now “ little” Jessica Stam. Jessica who hails from Kincardine, Ontario grew up on a farm with her 6 brothers and is now rocking the International fashion world.

Not only is she collaborating on a new fashion line with David Neville of Rag and Bone, she is also the new face of Nina Ricci’s perfume Ricci Ricci and models in the new 2009 campaign for the designer. Above photo from that campaign.

So once again, we prove over and over again that…. Canada’s has the best looking models!