Fashion Climbing: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from lauriebrown54

Born during the Depression to an Irish-American family with conservative values, Bill Cunningham's penchant for fancy clothes and beautiful décor was discouraged- discouraged to the point of receiving a brutal beating when his mother caught four year old Bill wearing his sister's organdy party dr...

from cindywho

I still miss Bill's street fashion reports on the NYT ipad version - I'd also enjoyed the documentary about him and his later life as a street photographer. This memoir that was discovered in his effects details the troubles and joys of his youth, discovering his eye for beauty and fashion. With ...

from jbarr5

Fashion climbing by Cunningham_ William J - Als_ Hilton Enjoying how this young man grew up loving lavish clothing and ended up working in Boston. Like hearing of training where it involved other trades but he found useful in fashion. Like hearing how he traveled the world and picked up so much k...

from DetailMuse

In this memoir (discovered after his death), Bill Cunningham recounts the childhood beginnings of his interest in women's fashion, his perseverance to success as a milliner and then fashion journalist -- and, in the process, traces how “fashion climbing” became the social climbing of the mid-20th...

from bogopea

It was okay. Bill Cunningham was a well-known photographer of people and fashion for the NY Times. This memoir (published posthumously) recounts his life up to that point. He grew up in a strict Boston Catholic home where his predilection for dressing in women's clothing or home decorating was ap...