Anna Wintour, Ralph Lauren, Naomi Campbell and others attended a memorial at Carnegie Hall-Lifer celebrate "style" original road.
Laughter and tears flowed equally, on Monday afternoon, the fashion industry filled Carnegie Hall to celebrate the life and work of the photographer and preferred the original style street all, Bill Cunningham.
Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Vera Wang, Naomi Campbell and Cynthia Rowley were among those attending the event, presented by the New York Times since 1978, the document was executed Cunningham "in the street" magazines, presents fashion by eye very democratic Cunningham , "Bill has always said." I look at the first session, and then look at the the door "No matter if you were famous really," says photographer Patrick McMullan, who worked with Cunningham on the red carpet and at parties and fashion shows for nearly four decades. Recalls
Steven Kolb, president and CEO of the American Council of Fashion Designer, agrees. , "I often sat beside her on the fashion shows, and even in Europe, a celebrity would be crazy unnamed introduced all the press, but Bill sitting," says Kolb recalls "It turned to me and said:" I do not care about personalities. I care about clothes. And he always carries in his work. "
The 87-year-old Cunningham died on June 25 after suffering a stroke. On the stage of Carnegie Hall Monday afternoon provided a stage next to a lamppost with a sign attached to the 57th Street and down 5th Avenue (his favorite corner) in his honor, and a bicycle Cunningham, his jacket. Signature shows blue cloth over the handlebars New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., welcomed the audience, editor: "I miss everything that my child catches," as many in the audience laughed all the time thinking Cunningham has in a similar manner she called. "I'll tell miss him:" Hello, my son, "Jenna Lyons said before the event.
The most emotional moment came at the beginning of the ceremony. "I have read this poem, and that reminds me of the joy that I always had the impression of seeing the bill in its towers in a magical night in New York", Anna Wintour said, her voice trembled as he Lord Byron to read, "so let go without wick." (No, I could not choke as Wintour lines said: "Although the night for love was made / And the day returns too soon / But let us go a little / from . moonlight ") written in 2002 to his times career, called Cunningham Wintour his muse in the 2010 documentary Bill Cunningham New York, Wintour the compliment, saying," Every man for Bill dressed ".
The speakers were a mix of lighting, and Sulzberger and Wintour, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sandy Weill, chairman of Carnegie Social Hall and fashion, also spoke and colleagues Cunningham in the Times, John Kurdewan and Joanna Nikas and his niece, Patricia Jarvis Simonson, the stories of growing up in Boston and enjoy telling Christmas Visit "Uncle Billy". "I like the fact that when the speakers were really your friends, your most intimate partners", the journalist and former EIC Linda Wells Allure said after the event. "It could be people more dazzling on stage, but it was a wonderful mix of people who truly understand their gift." Wells said that he was still grateful as Cunningham took him "under his wing, introduced me to everyone, all parties" when the times that he as joined a reporter in 1985. "It was a very generous person, and I wish to see the world through their eyes. "
After the 90-minute ceremony everyone was spilled on the sidewalk in front of Carnegie Hall, but no one seemed too eager to get or wait for Uber in a taxi; Rather each embraced and shared their stories of Bill. The scene resembled the output of a high-profile fashion show and while a person was decidedly absent, he was there in spirit. "Bill Cunningham was a first class photographer, but he was a better person," Sulzberger said. "I am very happy to call him my friend."
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