Bill Cunningham (American photographer)

If one person made street style a regular part of a newspaper, it was Cunningham. His work with The New York Times began in 1978, and for nearly four decades he rode his bicycle around Manhattan photographing what people actually wore, from society dandies to strangers at a crosswalk. His pages treated the street as a fashion show in its own right, often catching a trend on ordinary New Yorkers before it reached the stores. He died in 2016, aged 87. The documentary Bill Cunningham New York is the easiest way in; his old On the Street pages show how early he spotted what was coming.