"""Please, he's the most important person on Earth."" gq:  Bill Cunningham: The Original Street-Shooting Man  Cunningham is in many ways the exact opposite of the self-glorifying  fashionistas whose images he's captured for the last five decades. He  lives in a rent-controlled place the size of a pantry, containing little  more than a cot propped up on milk crates and filing cabinets housing  thousands of photo negatives (the communal bathroom is just down the  hall). He wears the same outfit each day (khakis, blue workman's jacket,  camera). He repairs his $20 parka with tape rather than buy a new one.  He prints snapshots at a one-hour photo center. This is the same guy, mind you, who sits front row at the most important runways; who, in the film, is  let into a fashion show by a publicist who shoos aside the doorwoman  and states, ""Please, he's the most important person on Earth.""  From GQ reporter Eric Sullivan's elegant write-up of the new documentary Bill Cunningham New York, which just opened in, go figure, New York. (It'll get to a city near you soon enough.) Click here to read the rest."
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