There are many things to like about fashion. How it makes you feel when you wear a new dress, put on heels, a pair of leg-elongating, high-waisted trousers. I love that designers rely on history and cultural influences to create new and inspiring collections season after season. Thanks to them and their clothes, what we wear can, if only for a moment, transport us to another era, make us feel part of another culture, a piece of history or simply cooler than we really are if we, say, wear something from Givenchy or Rick Owens.
As inspiring as fashion can be, nothing and no one is more inspirational in the fashion realm than Mr. Bill Cunningham. To see this pillar of kindness at the shows, with his smile so genuine it seems to eradicate all the cattiness that surrounds it, he, like fashion itself, transports me to a better time. No one works like this man anymore and it actually shames me. Night and day, day and night, he breathes his job. It is his unencumbering passion. A passion that doesn’t seem to destroy him, like so many passions can.
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