Anyway I hope you enjoy the pictures and have a great holiday season!
All photos and written material by Marilyn Lavender. © Marilyn Lavender, 2016. “All rights reserved.”
Anyway I hope you enjoy the pictures and have a great holiday season!
All photos and written material by Marilyn Lavender. © Marilyn Lavender, 2016. “All rights reserved.”
The various smaller stores along the way of this walk up 5th Avenue were Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Tiffany’s, and a couple stores whose windows I took photos of but whose names I can’t remember.
Barney’s as usual stuck to simple elegance and their windows were beautiful and bright with frozen ice themes, playful colors or scenes. They had a city that was filled in with super bold color. The “Chilling Winter Brilliance” of frozen huge icicles, a completely frozen purple and blue ice scene, and a work space for an ice sculptor.
I have more photos of shops in the Village and from downtown. I will create more posts in the next week of those. In general it is fun to get out and walk in Manhattan right now and view all there is to see. Many of the lovely, colorful lights I have seen are from small shop windows on the darker side streets. Some homes have lovely decorations, plus I walked by the Christmas tree lot downtown on the edge of Soho and 6th Avenue and took pictures of their lot and some of their merchandise. I hope you are enjoying these photos and posts and are getting prepared for or celebrating the holidays with friends and family.
All material written and photos taken by: © Marilyn Lavender, 2014. All Rights Reserved.
The windows at Saks Fifth Avenue had a Winter Palace theme this year. The models looked frozen in time, somewhat tense in certain windows and a few of them were quite spooky looking. In one a frozen model is holding the tablecloth edge from a table that is filled with a holiday spread. She’s poised to pull off that tablecloth at any moment. A few of the windows had a theme like the Frozen Great Wall of China or Paris at the Eiffel Tower. Some of the windows were brighter than others and in general they were very pretty, either brilliant and shiny silver or an electrical, psychedelic deep blue. Last year they had a story-book theme and such bright, lovely colorful windows filled with story-book characters. You can view those here. They also had several Art Deco window themes. As usual the crowds were flocking to see their windows. Some of them had to be viewed close up once you got into the line, at least if you wanted a decent picture of them.
Walking up Fifth Avenue with my friend we saw lots of pretty windows and buildings. The Harry Winston building was particularly beautiful with all the lights they had displayed on its surface. At Bulgari on the corner of 57th Street and 5th, there was a beautiful ribbon of lights attached to the corner of the building.
Next we came upon Bergdorf’s, which also usually has some really beautiful windows. Theirs were really glitzy and glamorous. Very bright, deep, electrifying colors. This year they had over-the-top sparkle going on. Last year they had many windows with a book theme. The ladies in some of the windows were covered in sparkles, and one window had a Gypsy fortune teller. Actually last night there was a Gypsy fortune teller seated outside there with her little table right next to the window. She said she “may as well make a go at making some money” since they set up such a window. One of my favorite windows was the more subdued, chic, simple one of a model in the side window dressed in an elegant blue and silver glittery dress, looking oh-so-elegant with her blue fur stole wrapped around her shoulders. To top off her lovely outfit she wore blue drop earrings, a blue feather hat and blue-grey long gloves. They had her surrounded by a gold background. Gorgeous!! The side window opposite that one held two models wearing extremely bright, glittery dresses.
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Lord and Taylor’s had a variety of modern taxidermy figures in their windows. Birds seemed to be quite a popular theme in various shop windows. Geminola had a lovely window in their shop, filled with red holiday vintage clothing. If you’d like to see more photos of the lovely shop you can refer to another post I did not too long ago: https://www.rewindreduceandrecycle.com/geminola/
Michal Negrin in Soho has lovely vintage inspired windows filled with their clothing and jewelry designs, plus colorful figures in various little scenes. It was as if one was gazing through a different time.
I hope you are enjoying your holidays and have a Happy New Year!!!
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