Bill Cunningham, the 86-year-old originator of street-style photography, is the fashion
world’s equivalent of a monk, religiously devoted to his craft.
Bill's earlier work as a milliner:
documentary directed by Richard Press. Viewers learned that he lives in a Carnegie Hall
studio-cum-apartment, spare and unadorned save for filing cabinets full of his work, much
of which goes unpublished. His studio has no kitchen or private bath. Owing to the
relationships he has cultivated with his subjects for years, many of whom are society
figures or prominent editors, he is also a fixture on the New York uptown social scene as
well. “We all get dressed for Bill,” said Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue,
who Cunningham has been shooting for decades. “It's always one snap, two snaps. Or he
ignores you, which is death.”
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