A brief introduction to the story of Bill, the originator of street shooting.

"We all dressed up for Bill." This is anna wintour's evaluation of bill cunningham, the editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine and the prototype of The Devil Wearing Prada in real life.

As a photographer in The New York Times, Cunningham, who is 80 years old this year, doesn't look like the kind of person who frequents various social occasions at all ... He is in charge of two weekly columns of The New York Times-one of which is "On the Street", and he captures and identifies the keen fashion trends on the streets of new york through snapshots; The other is "night time". His footprints cover almost all social occasions and charity banquets, which makes his photos more than just photos, almost a kind of cultural anthropology.

However, no one really knows what kind of person Cunningham is. He not only kept his private life strictly confidential, but also refused to accept any form of attention ... That's why the film producer Richard Press and the film producer Philip Goff took great pains and took several years to finally convince Cunningham. Complete this documentary focusing on him with the most common portable camera. The intimacy and intuition embodied in this documentary looks like a private home video. What is recorded here is the experience of a person who has only a strong interest in the same thing. What he needs to do is to tell people how to dress by taking pictures.

Cunningham lived in a small studio above Carnegie Hall for 50 years. He likes to ride an old bicycle around-it is also his only means of transportation, which is in sharp contrast to his poor life like a monk. It is the extreme luxury and indulgence of his subjects.

At the same time, Price also aimed the camera at some people who are inextricably linked with Cunningham's life with his wise imagination, from those who wore the strange clothes he shot in downtown new york to those spokesmen who have a stable position in new york culture, and finally those celebrities who are the mainstay of new york's upper class. They have never appeared on the big screen before, but they are all willing to appear in the camera out of their greetings and respect for Cunningham-including David Rockefeller, Brooke Astor and Annette de la Renta. Although they all showed some fanatical and interesting laughter and abuse, they finally gathered into a mysterious world behind Cunningham.

As a "Vega" who focuses on the clothing field, Cunningham always wears blue overalls. He tried to live in an unfettered and unhindered way. He only hopes that when something he thinks is beautiful passes by him, he can raise his camera anytime and anywhere ... It is for such a single purpose that he has created many intersections between new york's fashion and social fields in the past 50 years. In fact, he is describing new york City in an alternative way.