Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham was a New York fashion photographer whose street and society pictures recorded how people actually wore clothes. Fashion Climbing traces his route from a Boston childhood to work as a milliner, writer, and visual chronicler. Vintage publishes the posthumous memoir with the subtitle A New York Life. Cunningham became closely associated with The New York Times, where his recurring photographic columns joined meticulous observation to an independent eye for style. Before that newspaper career, he designed hats under the name William J. and reported on fashion for other publications. The memoir places those roles together, showing how craft, curiosity, and daily movement through the city shaped his distinctive record of fashion culture.