Last night I went up to Rockefeller Center to take pictures of the shop windows like I did last year. The area around the Christmas tree was so inundated with people that it wasn’t appealing to me to stick myself in there like a sardine. I can go back there perhaps this next week at a better time of day or early evening. On the weekends it is particularly crowded right now. Plus last night was Santa-Con in Manhattan so all the people going out to celebrate that were flooding into town. New York is especially lovely with Christmas lights. We normally have lots of lights here but all the extra of the holidays definitely adds to the razzle dazzle look and feel of the holiday season. The glitz and glamour of it all shine super brightly.
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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All of these pictures are of Saks Fifth Avenue
All material written and photos taken by: © Marilyn Lavender, 2014. All Rights Reserved.
