China Machado

China Machado in Harper's Bazaar, February 1959 Machado broke the color line at a major American fashion magazine when Richard Avedon's photographs of her ran in the February 1959 issue of Harper's Bazaar. The publisher had balked at printing them, and Avedon pushed them through. Some accounts call it a cover; the safer description is that she was the first nonwhite model featured in the pages of Harper's Bazaar. Her career then ran the other way across the desk: she later worked as an editor at Bazaar, which makes her story about who gets to decide as much as who gets photographed.