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Fashionista Street: So What’s the New Gray?

Bill Cunningham saw shades of gray everywhere On the Street at New York Fashion Week, and it didn’t bum him out. Even Paris Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld (below right) skipped regulation black. When gray is matched with nuanced accents such … Continue reading






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Fashionista Street: Taking the Plunge

Bill Cunningham laughs with the puddle-jumpers on Fifth Avenue in this week’s On the Street photo essay. He muses that this form of water ballet isn’t appreciated in snow-sensible places like Wisconsin and Colorado where people plod in heavy boots, … Continue reading






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Bill Cunningham Documents A ‘Gospel Miracle’

He didn’t have a ticket to the Inauguration. He didn’t have an official assignment from the Times. Bill Cunningham just got on a train and went to Washington. He stayed on the street, where he had freedom to move and … Continue reading






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Window-Shopping on Fifth Avenue

Bill Cunningham’s On the Street photo essay surveys holiday window displays on Fifth Avenue. He says he’s never seen the likes of these opulent scenes in his 80 years, and worries that with the financial downturn, their likes may never … Continue reading






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Fashionista Street: Silhouette Black

Manhattan, Fifth Ave., 9 a.m.: the place to take the temperature of Modern Woman, according to Bill Cunningham’s On the Street photo essay. Basic black isn’t basic, Bill says, and it isn’t a leading economic indicator of gloom and doom. … Continue reading






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