Hocking then pursued fashion design, before rediscovering success as a mature model in the 1990s, when she was described as a "grande dame" after her appearance in Mario Testino's shoots for Burberry.

In 1952 she borrowed the fare from her brother and sailed to the United Kingdom to pursue a career as a fashion model.

[1] After leaving Harper's & Queen, Hocking became a fashion designer for Christopher Carr Jones's mail-order company, and then started up her own equivalent business.

[1] Along with Tania Mallet, Hocking became one of Testino's favourite models as a representation of the "early-60s Englishness" that enhanced the Burberry brand.

[1] In 2002, The New York Times described Hocking and Mallet as "grande dames" who looked as good in Burberry fashion as their co-star, the young and glamorous Elizabeth Jagger.