TY - BOOK ID - 46127111 TI - Fashion climbing AU - Cunningham, Bill AU - Als, Hilton PY - 2018 SN - 9780525558705 0525558705 PB - New York Penguin Press DB - UniCat KW - Fashion designers KW - Portrait photographers KW - Millinery KW - mode KW - fotografie KW - modefotografie KW - straatfotografie KW - twintigste eeuw KW - Verenigde Staten KW - New York KW - Cunningham Bill KW - 391 KW - Dress accessories KW - Hats KW - Photographers KW - History KW - Cunningham, Bill, KW - Cunningham, William J. KW - Cunningham, William John, KW - Cunningham, Bill KW - Hat-making KW - Hatmaking UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46127111 AB - Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Cunningham dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. When he arrived in New York in 1948, he reveled in people-watching. He became a photographer for The New York Times, and after two style mavens took Cunningham under their wing he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.-- because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--he became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away until after his death in 2016 -- adapted from jacket. ER -