Join us for this Director’s Cut World Premiere documentary narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker and Executive Produced by Tommy & Dee Hilfiger and Susan Rockefeller for one night only at GLAZER HALL.
In 1994, a young television producer named Mark Bozek sat down with legendary New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham for what was supposed to be a ten-minute interview. Four hours later, Cunningham had done something he had never done before — and would never do again — telling his entire life story on camera. Bozek put the tapes in his basement and didn’t watch them again until the day Cunningham died in 2016. The result is The Times of Bill Cunningham, the acclaimed documentary featuring incredible photographs chosen from over 3 million previously unpublicized images from Cunningham’s remarkable archive. Now, for the first time, GLAZER HALL presents an evening with the man behind the film — and behind the legend.
Emmy-winning producer and former media executive Mark Bozek first encountered Cunningham while working for Barry Diller at Fox Television. An assignment to create a segment on the famously camera-shy photographer turned into a decades-long friendship and creative journey. Told entirely in Cunningham’s own words, the documentary chronicles, in his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, his Irish Catholic upbringing in Boston, moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times, and his democratic view of fashion and society. Bozek is also the author of The Battle of Versailles: The Fashion Showdown of 1973 (Rizzoli) and the forthcoming Dressing Jackie, and is currently developing Bill Cunningham: For Your Eyes Only, a hybrid theatrical production that will reveal previously unknown chapters of Cunningham’s extraordinary life.
Joining Bozek for a post-film conversation is Barneys legend Simon Doonan — bestselling author, CFDA Award-winning creative visionary, Palm Beach resident, and the man who for nearly three decades was the force behind Barneys New York’s legendary window displays. A protégé of the great Diana Vreeland at the Met’s Costume Institute, Doonan is the author of numerous books including Confessions of a Window Dresser, Beautiful People (adapted into a BBC television series), Drag: The Complete Story, and Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock and Loving Lou Reed. A beloved storyteller on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour and a judge on the Emmy-nominated NBC series Making It, Doonan brings his inimitable wit and deep knowledge of fashion, culture, and the New York that Bill Cunningham so lovingly documented.
Dress Code: Dress for Bill
