From style.com
Given how enduring her influence has been, it surprising to realize Tina
Chow was never a mainstream beauty. Half Japanese, half German-American, she
started modeling as a teen (and did so sporadically her entire life), but it
wasn until she moved to New York in the early seventies and became a
Warhol-circle regular that her personal style gelled. Chow loved fashion and
wore it with elan. She amassed a legendary collection of vintage clothing
and counted Manolo Blahnik and Antonio Lopez among her closest friends. But
it was her innate skill at pared-down elegance that still entrances: sleek,
clipped hair, minimal makeup, a daily uniform of white T-shirts, black Kenzo
trousers, and maybe one of her bamboo-wrapped crystal jewels. Proof that, as
Yves Saint Laurent said, "fashion fades; style is eternal."
what do you think about her?
Chow, wearing the classic Asian cheongsam, photographed by Cecil
Beaton in 1973.
Given how enduring her influence has been, it surprising to realize Tina
Chow was never a mainstream beauty. Half Japanese, half German-American, she
started modeling as a teen (and did so sporadically her entire life), but it
wasn until she moved to New York in the early seventies and became a
Warhol-circle regular that her personal style gelled. Chow loved fashion and
wore it with elan. She amassed a legendary collection of vintage clothing
and counted Manolo Blahnik and Antonio Lopez among her closest friends. But
it was her innate skill at pared-down elegance that still entrances: sleek,
clipped hair, minimal makeup, a daily uniform of white T-shirts, black Kenzo
trousers, and maybe one of her bamboo-wrapped crystal jewels. Proof that, as
Yves Saint Laurent said, "fashion fades; style is eternal."
what do you think about her?
Chow, wearing the classic Asian cheongsam, photographed by Cecil
Beaton in 1973.