Quotes by China Machado

About China Machado:

China Machado is a former fashion model, an editor and television producer. She is the first non-Caucasian to appear on the cover of a major American fashion magazine, in the February 1959 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
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I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

China Machado

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

China Machado

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

China Machado

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.

China Machado

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

China Machado

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.

China Machado

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

China Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

China Machado

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

China Machado

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

China Machado

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

China Machado

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.

China Machado

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

China Machado

When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

China Machado

I have no nationality, no country.

China Machado

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

China Machado

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

China Machado

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

China Machado

Author Bio

  • NameChina Machado
  • Descriptionformer fashion model, an editor and television producer
  • AliasesNoelie Dasouza Machado
  • ProfessionFashion Editor