China Machado, a model, muse and editor who was one of the first women to break high fashion’s color barrier, has died at 86. At 19, she met Luis Miguel Dominguín, who was the most famous bullfighter in the world at the time — Ernest Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer is about Dominguín and his brother. By all accounts, he was immediately smitten. Machado ran off with the dashing bullfighter, scandalizing her family and kicking off two extraordinary years of travel and adventure — partying with Errol Flynn and Pablo Picasso.
China Machado
