Bill Cunningham

While walking to work from the subway, you were wearing a fringed Castelbajac coat made from a Hudson Bay blanket.

You were spotted by the legendary New York Times style photographer Bill Cunningham-

Yeah

... who took your picture.

They would sneak us in, and we learned how to, like, we would pay off the typesetter.

We would typeset everything there.

David would sit in the cafeteria, which was on the same floor, and they used to feed the homeless, but they also, Bill Cunningham worked at The New York Times, and he was always there.

And he's like, "What are you doing here?" And we told him.

And then That kind of style, that's an iconic piece.

Bill Cunningham, that was famously a part of his uniform.

One of the greatest street style photographers, not the greatest of all time.

Someone who literally captured personal style for a living and defined that whole art form of street style, which now is an entire genre and fashion itself.

And this is before like the streets were a huge thing.

And, you know, so they had like Bill Cunningham had his thing that he did, but it wasn't necessarily that.

themed or was like based on like the event it was more high society and this was like we went to them and we said we think that we could be you know bringing in a younger audience and like a hipper like a downtown audience and all that stuff and we pitched it to them as you know cultural reportage with a camera from me and words from her and and then i just started like finding crazy

stuff to