Bill Cunningham: New York Page #2

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Every...

Oh, I guess you can't say that.

But he used to say, "Everybody here looks so boring.

Everybody looks alike. "

[Bill]

See, a lot of people have taste.

But they don't have

the daring to be creative.

Here we are in an age

of the cookie-cutter sameness.

There are few that are rarities.

Someone that doesn't look

like they were stamped out of...

ten million other people

looking all the same.

At the U.N.,

my friends used to...

Colleagues used to call me

the designing diplomat...

because during the day,

I wore my U.N. Suit,

which was very conservative,

but in the evenings,

I'd go out to Studio 54.

That's when Bill photographed me

for the first time.

I wish I could find the picture.

The first picture he ever took of

me in the New York Times.

I used to have this coat

with a big hood...

and it was a Hudson Bay blanket,

so it was all, like, bright striped,

and I used to wear them with,

like, little hot-pink ankle boots.

That's how I met him.

He used to run after me on the street.

He's like a war photographer in

that he'll do anything for the shot.

I've been in deep conversations

with him...

where he just will, like, run from

me 'cause he sees somebody.

So, I mean, he sees something that's

amazing, he has to go shoot it.

I sometimes will look at his pages

in the Times or online,

and just be so amazed that he and I...

and all my team and all

the rest of the world...

we're all sitting

in the same fashion shows...

but he's seen something

on the street or on the runway...

that completely missed all of us,

and in six months' time, you know,

that will be a trend.

Hold that right there.

[Bill]

You have to do three things.

You don't get the most

information from any one.

You have to photograph

the collections.

You have to photograph

the women on the street...

who have bought the things

and how they're wearing them.

And then you have to go

to the evening events.

You can't report to the public

unless you've seen it all.

People just go off

and say what they think.

Well, it isn't really what I think.

It's what I see.

[Younger Bill] It doesn't

happen like in a day or an hour.

I go out and that's it.

I run around and photograph

all people with holes in their sneakers.

It's not that at all.

Suddenly I see something,

then I see it again,

and I think, "Ah, there's an idea,"

and other times I'll see it and I'll think,

"Wow, that's an idea,"

and then I'll look for it.

But I'll be doing ten other ideas

all at once, you see.

[Siren Chirps]

[Horn Honking]

They make the best sandwich.

And coffee... three dollars.

The cheaper the better, you know?

The coffee at the Times,

l... I... It's so... ugh.

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