the showing of his Fall/Winter 1988/89 collection with Chow's jewelry. Personal life In 1972, Tina married Michael Chow, who owns the Mr. Chow restaurant chain. The Chows had two children, a daughter China (born 1974) and a son Maximillian (born 1978). China is a model and an actress. The couple divorced in November 1989. Chow was Talking Heads frontman David Byrne's sister-in-law, through his 1987-2004 marriage to Adelle Lutz. Later years and death After her marriage to Michael Chow ended, Tina Chow began to drift away from the party lifestyle for which the couple had become known. She became an AIDS activist after having lost many friends to the disease. In June 1989, Chow was diagnosed with AIDS. She had contracted HIV in late 1985 after having an affair with French aristocrat Kim d'Estainville who died of AIDS in January 1990. She made her diagnosis public in an effort to educate others and continued working as an AIDS activist and with AIDS charities, including Project Angel Food. Chow continued designing jewelry. Chow moved to California, where she chose to treat her illness with meditation and a macrobiotic diet. On January 24, 1992, she died of complications from AIDS at her home in Pacific Palisades at the age of 41. References External links Tina Chow Style Article The Influential Legacy of Tina Chow 1950 births 1992 deaths AIDS-related deaths in California Female models from Ohio American jewelry designers American people of German descent American models of Japanese descent HIV/AIDS activists People from Logan County, Ohio 20th-century American women Women jewellers