Bill Cunningham is a visionary, a maverick, a loner and a great Fashion Photographer. In this video, a trailer for the Film: “Bill Cunningham New York”, you will see everybody who is anybody in the world of Fashion, especially New York Fashion. “The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.”
If you think Fashion is all fluff – this will show you a different side. Bill loved the fashions he found on the New York Streets where he loved capturing the most daring and bizarre people he encountered. After working as a fashion photographer for over 60 years he really believed that “Fashion is an armour to survive the reality of everyday life – if everyone went around like me it would be a dreary place”