Holiday Windows 2014: See the Photos!

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Updated Mar 11, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
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Holiday Windows 2014: See the Photos!

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Bloomingdale's

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This year’s windows invite onlookers to get in on the excitement with an entirely interactive experience. The high-tech displays include games inspired by the Bloomingdale's holiday "Gift A Bow" mascot along with the opportunity to interact with the windows via social media using #bloomiesgreetings.

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Bloomingdale's

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In this New York City-themed window, the department store decked out everyone's favorite Big Apple icons in holiday style.

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Bloomingdale's

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What comes after Christmas? New Years Eve! This display plays homage to the celebration of ringing in a new year.

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Saks Fifth Avenue: An Enchanted Experience

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Saks Fifth Avenue has transformed their windows into an enchanted fantastical experience complete with a dramatic light display as well as classic characters we know and love. This window features the Evil Queen tempting Snow White with a poisonous apple.

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Saks Fifth Avenue: An Enchanted Experience

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Each of the windows feature elegant fashion and holiday attire, all presented in an Art Deco style inspired by the artist Erté. This one depicts Rumplestiltskin spinning straw into gold.

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Saks Fifth Avenue: An Enchanted Experience

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Cinderella is presented with a glass slipper by Prince Charming as they arrive at the ball in a horse-drawn carriage in this enchanting recreation of the fairytale.

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Saks Fifth Avenue: An Enchanted Experience

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“We want to leave our audience breathless,” says Marigay McKee, President of Saks Fifth Avenue. “The Experience is Everything. This year’s An Enchanted Experience promises to yield an experience more grand, more luxurious, and more sensational than New York has ever seen.”

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Bergdorf Goodman: The Arts

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Bergdorf Goodman's overarching holiday theme this year is "Inspired," and the retailer's Fifth Avenue windows are just that. Collectively titled "The Arts," the displays reflect different forms of creativity including everything from painting to music.

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Bergdorf Goodman: The Arts, Painting

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Bergdorf Goodman's "Painting" window takes you right into an artist's studio in the 19th century. A 12-foot-tall artist's mannequin and a custom gown by Dolce and Gabbana (it's hand-painted!) fill out the detailed display.

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Bergdorf Goodman: The Arts, Literature

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The storefront "Literature" window features a library that includes books, author portraits, and a dress by Naeem Kahn. The festive red display was created with soft sculpture and fiber art, as well as custom needlework that required over seven million stitches.

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Bergdorf Goodman: The Arts, Architecture

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Three-dimensional sculptures made out of paper are front and center in Bergdorf Goodman's "Architecture" window. The blueprint designs use layering, scale, and perspective to create a visual masterpiece.

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Lord & Taylor

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Lord & Taylor is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Fifth Avenue building with an enchanting theme. The storefront windows take guests into a winter wonderland to tour the hallways of a festive mansion in the woods. And the twinkling stars are extra magical; they mark the first time that the store has used video wall technology in its holiday display.

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Lord & Taylor

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Surprises abound in the rooms of Lord & Taylor's mystical mansion-themed windows. In "The Heritage Gallery," the paintings come to life!

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Lord & Taylor

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Whimsical details throughout Lord & Taylor's display show a delightful celebration taking place inside as the house comes to life on the eve of the holidays.

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Barneys New York: Baz Dazzled, Love

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Barneys New York teamed up with Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, the couple behind Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby for this year's "Baz Dazzled" display that brings the classic art of storytelling to life. The "Love" window is set in Central Park, where Elphresh the contortionist elf can be seen dancing around his 14-foot-wide bejeweled stereo as he pines for the elf of his dreams. He's surrounded by colorful chromed mushrooms, which stand at 9 feet tall.

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Barneys New York: Baz Dazzled, Beauty

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Barneys New York's "Beauty" window stars the "Spirits of the Snow," handmade sculptures by artist Anthony Howe. Wind machines generate the hypnotizing motion of the kinetic structures, bringing them to life within the display.

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Henri Bendel

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Henri Bendel has turned its Fifth Avenue store into an enchanted garden for the holidays, both inside and out. On each side of the main entrance, the window is framed by the silhouette of a 20-foot-tall snow-covered tree. And just through the doors, the lushness continues. In the center of the store's atrium sits a two-story tree with eight gigantic ornaments, larger versions of those from this year's holiday collection.

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Henri Bendel

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Henri Bendel's cobblestone-backed main window features fountains, camellias, and holiday accessories that pack plenty of sparkle. Surrounded by evergreens, an ivy-covered elephant sits on three ornaments off to the side.

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Van Cleef & Arpels: Peau d'Ane, Childhood at the Castle

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For its 75th anniversary in New York City, the brand tapped fame set designer and storyteller Douglas Little to design its five holiday windows. Each display is inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels' new high jewelry collection, Peau d'Ane, bringing the famous French fairytale of the same name to life. The story begins in the castle of a princess whose perfect life is suddenly turned upside down.

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Van Cleef & Arpels: Peau d'Ane, Happily Ever After

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Van Cleef & Arpels' "Happily Ever After" window is true to its title. It represents the merging of two kingdoms in the story as they unite for the princess's fairytale wedding.

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Van Cleef & Arpels: Peau d'Ane, Love Cake

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This window, called "Love Cake," shows the delicious treat in which the prince in this fairy tale found a ring. After searching for its rightful owner, he and the princess reunite when the ring slides onto her finger perfectly.

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