Legendary New York fashion and street photographer Bill Cunningham - who dropped out of Harvard, rode his bike everywhere and earned Anna Wintour's respect - dies aged 87

Bill Cunningham worked for the New York Times for nearly 40 years, operating 'as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist,' the newspaper said. 


Cunningham (pictured left with Anna Wintour, upper right in July last year and bottom right at New York Fashion Week in February 2015) was known for wearing his trademark blue jacket and riding around in his bicycle with a small camera bag strapped to his waist. 

He lived a stubbornly modest lifestyle, eating breakfast at the same deli every day and until 2010 sleeping in the same studio where he kept his negatives. Wintour once said: 'We all dress for Bill.'