Window Wonderland

When people think winter holidays (CHRISTMAS REALLY BUT THAT’S NOT PC!) they usually think lights, Santa decor, sleds, snow, trees, cookies, presents and so on.

I think windows.

Not so much here in hill billy Texas and even less so in the prestigious Clear Lake area, but in big cities like Chicago and New York holidays mean window decorations.

This year,  Barneys New York is filling their windows with Saturday Night Live decorations in honor of SNL’s 35th anniversary this year.

May I just say genius? And also thank you.

What cooler decorations in the world than  two dozen caricature,  life-size, papier-mache ornaments of the Cone heads, Church Lady, Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin, King Bee, Coffee Talk, Land Shark, Mary Catherine Gallagar and the rest  of the gang? I would fly to New York just to take pictures in front of it.

The creative director of Barneys said in an interview that “Holiday windows, he explains, are supposed to generate traffic, bring hoards of shoppers and tourists to the front of the store to “ooh” and “aah,” and garner some media buzz. At the same time, the windows need to convey taste, luxury and humor, all of which he considers the core of Barneys brand.”

I think SNL characters are a great pick because they make people laugh and are different from Santa Claus and his reindeer. I would go into Barneys because of them.

Its takes some real creativity to come up with ideas like this.

Cone heads

Some of my ideas for holiday window include:

• Broadway inspired characters in a “best of broadway” using traditional musicals like the Sound of Music kids and such or  “funniest of broadway” with the Avenue Q puppets, Knights from Spamalot and more.
• Save the homeless pets (with pictures of dogs from the ASPCA animal commercials)
• Alice in Wonderland (because why not? Especially with Tim Burton’s movie coming out soon)
• Nightmare Before Christmas (a little more holiday-like)

What would you want to see in store windows?

Read the entire Barneys article at http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wirestory?id=9109822&page=1

 

 

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