If during the next New York fashion week you happen to pass by the Lincoln Center, where now all the fashion shows are staged in the Big Apple, you might run across. In fact it might even ask if you want to photograph. No, this is not dell'arcinoto The Sartorialist blog or some other all-photo-and-little-roast, but one suspects that in the not chose the street as theater: Bill Cunningham, the photographer of the New York Times first began making street style and whose life and work is told in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, out in March in the U.S..
Bicycle (the number 28: the other 27 have stolen them to him over the years) and blue jacket vest in order, a yellow striped red waterproof jackets in case of rain and the ever Nikon shoulder, Bill began to photograph " people in the street "in 1978, decades before they started to do Scott Schuman & Co.
all began to blame (or on) a fur coat:" As I watched I thought: look at the perfection of the cut of the shoulder. It's beautiful. - He says - and only after I realized the mess that was created that I realized that the person who wore it was Greta Garbo. " Yes Bill because the person is of secondary importance compared to clothing: "I'm not interested in celebs with their royal costume designers.
I'm interested in clothes, "he continues, even if some of those celebrities were a certainty, as Anna Wintour, who has followed since the beginning:" At a certain point I realized that most of the time we dressed for him - says director of American Vogue in the documentary directed by Richard Press - It was a matter of one click, two clicks ...
or anyone, and then it was "death". " So famous in the fashion circuit, to be the only member of the media to be invited to a birthday party for Brooke Astor's 100 years, yet until recently slept on a cot in his office and shared a bathroom with tenants. Unlike some, perhaps best known (at least from the public network) to street style photographer, has never worked for any fashion house and even did not accept even a glass of water in the events they cover while he was "on duty".
Indeed, to those who asked why this monastic life and off the show biz part of which meant, but only as external and impartial observer, he replied: "See, if you do not take money can not tell you what to do. This is the secret to all things. " 
Bicycle (the number 28: the other 27 have stolen them to him over the years) and blue jacket vest in order, a yellow striped red waterproof jackets in case of rain and the ever Nikon shoulder, Bill began to photograph " people in the street "in 1978, decades before they started to do Scott Schuman & Co.
all began to blame (or on) a fur coat:" As I watched I thought: look at the perfection of the cut of the shoulder. It's beautiful. - He says - and only after I realized the mess that was created that I realized that the person who wore it was Greta Garbo. " Yes Bill because the person is of secondary importance compared to clothing: "I'm not interested in celebs with their royal costume designers.
I'm interested in clothes, "he continues, even if some of those celebrities were a certainty, as Anna Wintour, who has followed since the beginning:" At a certain point I realized that most of the time we dressed for him - says director of American Vogue in the documentary directed by Richard Press - It was a matter of one click, two clicks ...
or anyone, and then it was "death". " So famous in the fashion circuit, to be the only member of the media to be invited to a birthday party for Brooke Astor's 100 years, yet until recently slept on a cot in his office and shared a bathroom with tenants. Unlike some, perhaps best known (at least from the public network) to street style photographer, has never worked for any fashion house and even did not accept even a glass of water in the events they cover while he was "on duty".
Indeed, to those who asked why this monastic life and off the show biz part of which meant, but only as external and impartial observer, he replied: "See, if you do not take money can not tell you what to do. This is the secret to all things. "
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