Machado, China (1929-2016)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1929-2016

Biography

According to the NY Times, "China Machado was one of the first non-Caucasians to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who helped break not only the race barrier but also the age barrier."

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Nancy North photographs and sketches, 1973

Collection

Identifier: SC.387

Scope and Contents This collections is comprised of seventeen (17) 18x16" black and white framed photographs by Bill Cunninham taken at the Grand Divertissement à Versailles in 1973. Persons featured in photographs include Marisa Berenson, Karen Bjornson, Alva Chinn, Dennis Christopher, Pat Cleveland, Bill Dugan, Heidi Lieberfarb, China Machado, Nancy North, Chris Royer, Ramona Saunders, and Andy Warhol. Also included in the collection are twenty-five (25) 17 x 11" original marker sketches by Halston and a...

Dates: 1973

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

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Subject: Versailles (France) X