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Fashion Climbing - A New York Life (Paperback)
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Fashion Climbing - A New York Life (Paperback)
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List price R314
Loot Price R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
You Save R29 (9%)
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An enchanting memoir by the legendary New York Times fashion
photographer Bill Cunningham *A Financial Times Book of the Year
2018* *The New York Times Bestseller* 'I took to New York life like
a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first
love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for
New York aged nineteen, losing his family's support but enjoying
the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a
day, he would run down to Fifth Avenue to feed on the spectacular
sights of the window displays - then run back to his tiny studio to
work all night. Working as 'William J' (to spare his parents'
blushes), Bill became one of the most celebrated hat designers of
the 1950s, creating elegant town hats for movie stars and playful
beach hats for the summer set. Bill's mission was to bring
happiness by making beautiful things - even if it meant pawning his
bike to fund fancy-dress outfits for all his friends. When women
stopped wearing hats and his business was forced to close, Bill
worked as a fashion journalist, touring the couture houses of
Europe. But New York remained his home, and it was as a street
photographer of the fashions of the city that he became well known,
in a job that would last almost forty years. Fashion Climbing is
the enchanting memoir he left behind, capturing the madcap times of
his early career and the fashion scene of the mid-century. Written
with the spark and wit of Holly Golightly, and brimming over with
Bill's infectious joy for life, it is a gift to all who seek
beauty, whatever our style or status.
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