Birds of Paradise

Maureen Dowd just wrote a fine column about Bill Cunningham, the rarest kind of individuals - the birds of paradise. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/opinion/06dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Cunningham started as a milliner with a shop in Carnegie Hall. “Ginger Rogers used to come and Joan Crawford,” he recalls. “Marilyn Monroe was one. And I had no interest because they weren’t stylish.” He only cares about “birds of paradise” with daring styles as opposed to “cookie-cutter sameness.” "