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When the invite says "Dress for Bill," there's no one route to go. Instead, the late fashion photographer Bill Cunningham championed all types of self-expression through style, or as one attendee put it, "He said, 'Wherever you look for beauty, you'll find it.' And so he found it."
At the New York Times's celebration of Cunningham's legacy at Carnegie Hall yesterday, Racked spoke to the guests — some of whom were his close friends — on their own fashion sense, their memories with him, and his affect on street style as we know it today.
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