Research Catalog
Fashion climbing
- Title
- Fashion climbing / Bill Cunningham ; preface by Hilton Als.
- Author
- Cunningham, Bill, 1929-2016
- Publication
- New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Als, Hilton
- Description
- xii, 237 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Cunningham dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. When he arrived in New York in 1948, he reveled in people-watching. He became a photographer for The New York Times, and after two style mavens took Cunningham under their wing he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.-- because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--he became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away until after his death in 2016 -- adapted from jacket.
- Subjects
- Portrait photographers
- Fashion designers
- Millinery
- History
- United States
- DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Fashion
- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Autobiographies
- Cunningham, William J
- Portrait photographers > United States > Biography
- Fashion designers > United States > Biography
- Cunningham, Bill, 1929-2016
- Millinery > United States > History
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Contents
- The doors of paradise -- Becoming William J. -- My first shop -- A helmet covered in flowers -- The luxury of freedom -- Nona and Sophie -- The Southampton shop -- Fashion punch -- The top of the ladder -- On society -- On taste -- Laura Johnson's philosophy.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-57
- ISBN
- 9780525558705
- 0525558705
- LCCN
- 2018024955
- 40028461508
- OCLC
- 1023859126
- Author
- Cunningham, Bill, 1929-2016, author.
- Title
- Fashion climbing / Bill Cunningham ; preface by Hilton Als.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Als, Hilton, writer of preface.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cunningham, William J., author. Fashion climbing New York : Penguin Press, 2018 9780525558712 (DLC) 2018025887
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028461508
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-57