A New York Times "Sunday Style" section isn't complete without photographer Bill Cunningham's street style round-up of trends like torn jeans and bare shoulders.
So when the paper's style section went to print without it this weekend, there was concern it might never be whole again.
Fans can breathe easier now: Cunningham, 87, is in the hospital “recovering from what appears to have been a stroke,” a Times spokesperson told Page Six's Richard Johnson.
“We believe that his recovery will be quick.”
Cunningham started contributing his photography to the Times in the 1970s, although his first street fashion work appeared in the New York Daily News. Long a fixture at New York Fashion Week, the beloved photographer was the subject of a 2010 documentary, "Bill Cunningham New York," that shows him cycling around the city in pursuit of its best dressed.
"I don't see the people I photograph. All I see are clothes," he said, explaining his journalistic credo in a autobiographical essay published by the Grey Lady in 2002.
News of Cunningham's condition elicited an outpouring of feeling on social media: