Model China Machado Has Passed Away
During her long career in fashion, she appeared on numerous magazine covers and worked as a fashion editor.
She was not on the list.
Model China Machado has passed away, Women's Wear Daily reports. She suffered cardiac arrest in her North Haven, Connecticut home on Thursday evening and died Sunday morning at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island. Women's Wear Daily reports that she was 86 years old, but a New York Magazine interview from October referenced her age as 87.
Machhado was born in Shanghai, but moved with her family to South America after World War II. In her early 20s, she moved to Europe and began modeling and found steady work with Givenchy.
In February 1959, she was photographed by Richard Avedon. She later served as Senior Fashion Editor and, eventually, Fashion Director for the magazine. She last appeared in the September 2013 issue of Bazaar alongside Soo Joo Park, styled by Carine Roitfeld.
WWD reports that she is survived by her husband, Ricardo Rosa; daughters Blanche LaSalle and Emmanuelle LaSalle-Hill, and grandsons Malcolm and Montgomery Hill.
In 1957, she married the actor Martin LaSalle, the son of a diplomat, and a student of political science at the Sorbonne, whom she met in Paris. Nonetheless, for a year during their courtship, she left him for the Oscar-winning actor William Holden, returning to LaSalle to marry him. The couple eventually settled in New York City where Machado met Diana Vreeland and through Vreeland, Richard Avedon, with whom she developed a very close friendship and called a "great mentor in her life". Machado and LaSalle had two daughters, Blanche and Emmanuelle. They divorced in 1965, after Machado had an affair with a friend of her husband's.
She is known for Love at First Bite (1979), Citizen Hearst (2012) and About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (2012).
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