Alla Ilchun (10 December 1926 – 6 March 1989) was a Chinese-born Kazakh-Russian fashion model who lived in France.
A muse for Christian Dior, who referred to her as "his personal talisman", she was the first prominent Asian woman to model European fashions.
[1][2][3] Due to political unrest in Harbin, with the city passing between the Chinese, Japanese, the Ilchun family fled to France.
[1] Ilchun attended a model casting in Paris, as a favor to a friend, and was chosen by Christian Dior to work for the fashion house.
In 2020, a documentary film titled Alla – Dior’s Oriental Pearl was released by Berlin Irishev, president of AKF.