[1] Noelie da Souza Machado was born in Shanghai, China to a Portuguese father from Macau and a Chinese mother.

When the relationship ended, Machado moved to Paris and found work modelling for Hubert de Givenchy.

They thought I was filling-in for a sick girl, so they grabbed me, put me in clothes, and threw me into the room where they were showing the collection.

[3] In 1957, she married the actor Martin LaSalle, the son of a diplomat, and a student of political science at the Sorbonne, whom she met in Paris.

Nonetheless, for a year during their courtship, she left him for the Oscar-winning actor William Holden, returning to LaSalle to marry him.

Among the photographers who exhibited in the gallery were Hiro, Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Mary Ellen Mark, and Barbara Bordnick.

She returned to modeling and the public eye at age 82 with an article in W[1] followed by interviews in the Spanish and German editions of Vogue, The Sunday Telegraph, and New York.

[3] Machado died on 18 December 2016, at age 86, at Stony Brook University Hospital from cardiac arrest.