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Bill Cunningham: A Memoir Of Style On All Levels, High And Low

"The best fashion show is definitely on the street — always has been and always will be." Bill Cunningham
Photographer Bill Cunningham outside Skylight Clarkson Sq during New York Fashion Week on July 15, 2015 in New York City.

I miss Bill Cunningham. There. I said it. I miss opening the Thursday and Sunday pages of the New York Times and seeing a whole cross-section of humanity, courtesy of Cunningham's photos, that had become a documentation of how New Yorkers lived and what they wore.

It's fitting, then, that Cunningham's posthumous memoir, , should be published during New York Fashion Week. The fashion photographer was always on the streets outside the shows (where the people were often more interestingly dressed than the people on the runways), darting, quick as

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