Bill Cunningham: New York Page #3

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My cord kept coming out of the

camera last night. Oh, yeah?

So I've been worried sick.

But I got something,

any rate, on that roll.

We'll see about the others.

[Interviewer] Do you know

anything about his personal life?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

[Apfel] I don't think anybody

gets to know him very well, do they?

I have the feeling that he doesn't sit down

to talk to people too much.

[De la Renta] I have no

idea about his private life.

I have no idea if he's lonely. I have no idea...

Where does he eat dinner every night?

You have no id...

I mean, I don't.

I wonder, you know,

what he does do.

[Speaking, Indistinct]

[Woman] For all the years

that I've known Bill,

he's lived at Carnegie Hall...

in a tiny, tiny room.

You know, I once went to his studio.

Have you been there? Oh, my God.

When I saw that,

I was just, like, wow.

[Woman] File cabinets,

file cabinets, file cabinets.

He has negatives

of every picture he's ever taken.

That's my filing system.

Okay.

And this is my clothes closet.

[Interviewer And Bill Chuckling]

Does he still sleep on the cabinets?

It's just like it was

just all a little room...

with all these file cabinets

and negatives,

and that was probably

30 years ago.

I know that the bathroom

was in the hall.

[Knocking]

Editta?

[Editta]

Come in.

[Editta]

I've been here 60 years.

Carnegie Hall.

And I'm

he only one here...

except Bill on this floor,

you know.

I've done...

[Interviewer] This is fabulous.

All the stars of Hollywood.

Yes.

Well, I'm very famous.

Look at the people I've done. Look.

Tyrone Power,

Henry Fonda, Mary Martin.

Let's see.

Andy Warhol here.

You can't photograph that.

[Interviewer]

Just you.

Not this. Not Andy.

Why not?

Because not.

What do you mean you can't

photograph Andy Warhol?

Who are you kidding?

What do you mean?

That's what he was all about.

What?

Being photographed.

I just sold two to China.

This is, uh, Bernstein,

and he lived here in Carnegie Hall.

June Carter.

See, this is, uh...

You know who she is.

[Interviewer] Oh, Tilda Swinton?

Yes!

Tilda Swinton.

Swinton.

Isn't that nice? Mm-hmm.

I was here 60 years.

I'm...

I'm really a, uh, a legend now.

[Interviewer]

A legend or a fixture?

Well, I'm both,

you know what I mean?

[Interviewer]

Does Bill live next door?

[Editta]

He's down on the corner.

He's got a tiny little place, yeah.

It's nothing.

By the way,

this is Lesley Vinson,

and Lesley was the art director

of Details Magazine.

The original Details

with Annie Flanders.

We worked well together.

She took me on and didn't mind

how many changes I made...

or how many pictures

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