During this time, she became the highest-paid runway model in Europe, earning $1,000 a day.Īt 83 years old, Machado shot Cole Haan's latest campaign, titled “Born in 1928,” in honor of the company's 85th anniversary (shown above). When the relationship ended, she moved to Paris and found work modeling for Hubert de Givenchy. Machado was working as a stewardess when she was swept away at age 19 by the famous Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. They fled to the US by boat, but were turned away in New York due to immigration quotas, and wound up in Buenos Aires, then Lima. China Machado is best known as the first non-Caucasian model to be featured in a leading fashion magazine-the February 1959 issue of Harper's Bazaar.īorn to multiracial parents in Shanghai, Machado's family lost their home and money when the Japanese invaded in 1937.
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