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"Bill Cunningham New York: The Movie" -- Can't Wait To See!

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Wow, this film looks so fabulous! Sort-of like an Exit Through The Gift Shop meets Project Runway on the way to lunch in the Hamptons with "Big"and "Little Edie . " -- Love! Click here for his "on the street" slide shows from NYT ABOUT THE FILM “We all get dressed for Bill,” says  Vogue  editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+  New York Times  photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirĂ©es 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 in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn,  Bill Cunningh