The father of fashion blogging

This weekend I went to see the documentary about Bill Cunningham. I definitely recommend to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, you don’t have to like fashion or photography to enjoy the film. It’s the story of an interesting character told through beautiful images.

What struck me about Bill Cunningham is he doesn’t go to work everyday for the money or the fame, he’s just genuinely obsessed with how people express themselves through fashion. People you might consider weird he sees as being “marvelous”.

If you didn’t know who he was it would probably seem really creepy for an 80 year old man to come up to you and take a photo. It reminded me of the girl at 2:30 in the short film about The Sartorialist:

Of course Scott Schuman wishes that he was as cool as Bill. You can read Bill Cunningham’s autobiographical piece in the New York Times here >