{"id":50833,"date":"2016-12-21T17:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50833"},"modified":"2016-12-21T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:59:56","slug":"china-machado-breakthrough-model-until-the-end-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50833","title":{"rendered":"China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/fashion\/china-machado-first-non-white-supermodel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/on-the-runway\" target=\"_blank\">On The Runway<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VVFriedman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vanessa Friedman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China_Machado\">China Machado<\/a>, the first non-Caucasian to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who broke not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brookhaven,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Brookhaven, N.Y.<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island<\/a>. She was 86.<\/p>\n<p>Her family said the cause was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardiac_arrest\" target=\"_blank\">cardiac arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Machado (whose first name was pronounced CHEE-na) lived a colorful life: She was born Noelie de Souza Machado on Christmas Day 1929, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghai<\/a>; fled the country with her parents in 1946, after the Japanese occupation; had an affair with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luis_Miguel_Domingu%C3%ADn\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Domingu\u00edn<\/a>, the Spanish bullfighter, who left her for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ava_Gardner\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Gardner<\/a>; and socialized with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut\" target=\"_blank\">Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/fashion\/china-machado-first-non-white-supermodel.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86 The New York Times On The Runway 2016-12-19 Vanessa Friedman China Machado, the first non-Caucasian to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who broke not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[25820,2640,25821,2327,25819],"class_list":["post-50833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-china-machado","tag-new-york-times","tag-noelie-de-souza-machado","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-vanessa-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50834,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50833\/revisions\/50834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}