{"product_id":"bill-cunningham-fashion-climbing-2018-hardback","title":"Bill Cunningham: Fashion Climbing [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e                                                                                                                                                                              An enchanting memoir by the legendary \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e fashion photographer Bill Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                              *A\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for New York aged nineteen, losing his family's support but enjoying the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a day, he would run down to Fifth Avenue to feed on the spectacular sights of the window displays - then run back to his tiny studio to work all night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking as 'William J' (to spare his parents' blushes), Bill became one of the most celebrated hat designers of the 1950s, creating elegant town hats for movie stars and playful beach hats for the summer set. Bill's mission was to bring happiness by making beautiful things - even if it meant pawning his bike to fund fancy-dress outfits for all his friends. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen women stopped wearing hats and his business was forced to close, Bill worked as a fashion journalist, touring the couture houses of Europe. But New York remained his home, and it was as a street photographer of the fashions of the city that he became well known, in a job that would last almost forty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashion Climbing\u003c\/i\u003e is the enchanting memoir he left behind, capturing the madcap times of his early career and the fashion scene of the mid-century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                         \u003cb\u003e                                                                                                  Written with the spark and wit of Holly Golightly, and brimming over with Bill's infectious joy for life, it is a gift to all who seek beauty, whatever our style or status.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cunningham, Bill","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49907987743059,"sku":"XV81784742812","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/bill-cunningham-fashion-climbing-2018-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}