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Bill Cunningham captured what they were wearing in the Big Apple

Bill Cunningham captured what they were wearing in the Big Apple

New from the the legendary New York photographer's archives: five decades of street style.

Painting the town red: strong colour came out in force in the 2010s. Bill Cunningham

What: A new book of photos from the archive of New York fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who died in 2016 aged 87.

Ripped jeans. Puffer jackets. Baggy white shirts. Men's ankles on display. For nearly 50 years, Cunningham saw it, snapped it and stashed it away for his On The Street column in The New York Times. This book gathers some of the shots that didn't make the page or were cropped out of context.

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