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Bill Cunningham exhibit launching during New York Fashion Week

Bill Cunningham, the legendary street style photographer who spent decades photographing New York’s best dressed at New York Fashion Week, is getting his own exhibition during New York Fashion Week. The exhibition is the work of documentary filmmaker Mark Bozek, who planned to release a documentary based on Bill Cunningham, but then the COVID-19...

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Lost interview focus of new Bill Cunningham documentary

This weekend sees the opening of the second documentary about the original streetstyle shutterbug, entitled The Times of Bill Cunningham. It centers on a 1994 interview with Cunningham by director Mark Bozek which was supposed to last ten minutes but ended when the tape ran out after six hours. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker the film weaves...

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Fashion photographer Bill Cunningham left behind secret memoir

Bill Cunningham, the original street—style photographer from New York who died in 2016, reportedly left behind a secret memoir. According to the New York Times, the memoir is called Fashion Climbing, a reference to Cunningham climbing the fashion ladder. Discovered by his family, the memoir may have been worked on by Cunningham for quite some...

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6 Fashion Films & Documentaries to Watch in 2018

London - The fashion industry has produced its own pearls of beauty and wonder within the field of cinematography over the years. Considering the fact that the two sectors are both visually driven, it seems only natural that film in fashion go hand in hand. Whether they be in the form of a documentary, a short movie or a fashion-focused comedy...

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The fashion industry remembers Bill Cunningham

London - This weekend was marked by the passing of Bill Cunningham, celebrated and legendary street and fashion photographer for the New York Times. He passed away Saturday night, aged 87, after being hospitalised two weeks ago following a stroke, reported the Times. “It’s not work, it’s pleasure. That’s why I feel so guilty. Everybody else does...

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Master of street fashion photography Bill Cunningham dead at 87

Legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died Saturday, according to the paper where he worked for nearly 40 years. He was 87. Cunningham, whose watchful eye brought images of New Yorkers -- from the well-heeled to unsuspecting trendsetters -- to the public, had been hospitalized recently after a stroke, the Times reported....

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No street secrets for fashion photographer Bill Cunningham

In a past life, he dressed Jackie Kennedy and designed fashionable hats. Since then, Bill Cunningham has become a living legend of street fashion photography, a discipline he is credited with creating. His passion is still his obsession: capturing the look. With a watchful eye, a blue workman's shirt worn over his slightly arched back and a...

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Bill Cunningham fashion anthropologist

"We all get dressed for Bill," quips Anna Wintour in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York. Richard Press's documentary of the "fashion anthropologist" has finally hit cinemas, and found release in London and New York this month. The story follows the famously reclusive 80-year-old as he carries out his twin duties for The New York Times: his...

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Bill Cunningham to receive Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence

Before The Sartorialist, Facehunter, and Garance Dore, there was the NY Times' photojournalist, Bill Cunningham and in recognition for his devotion to chronicling fashion he has been announced as the 2012 recipient of the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence. Cunningham was chosen by a panel that includes Annette and Oscar de la Renta, and Sarah...

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Docu: Bill Cunningham New York

Before Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist, Yvan Rodic of Facehunter and Garance Doré there was Bill Cunningham. The 82 year old loves photography and still works as a fashion photographer at the New York Times. Seen as the founder of street style photography, his life is documented by Richard Press of the Times. The film ‘Bill Cunningham New York...