Before Instagram’s online photo sharing in 2010, one of the first fashion websites I booked marked back in 2006 was The Sartorialist. Why? The site captures everyday women and men on the streets with their sartorial splendor. Another person has been crystallizing epic moments in and around Manhattan since 1978. That man, who remembers NYC street photographer Bill Cunningham?

Bill Cunningham loved fashion, but he loved style even more. According to the Business of Fashion, “a true cultural anthropologist, he knew that fashion didn’t come from designer catwalks or pages of magazines but was instead born from culture. And to him, the best place to find culture was on the street, so that’s where he went to work every day”.
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