Black Irises: Flânerie in the Garden

Flânerie reaches beyond the street, as Bill Cunningham reveals when he travels to Old Westbury, Long Island for a garden party celebrating the 50th anniversary of the public gardens there. The rhododendrons were in full bloom, and so were the floral print dresses summoned forth by the party’s 1960s “Flower Child” motif. Ms. Modigliani will note that the photographer was most especially charmed by the irises as “pitch-black as coal” – an iridescent variety now gracing her garden. We should invite Bill Cunningham to Oakville!