“All of us dress for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in query is 80+ Recent York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For many years, 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 within the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everybody in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of labor is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham Recent York is a fragile, funny and infrequently poignant portrait of a...
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