Every year Bergdorf tries to out-do their previous year's holidays displays and are highly anticipated. This year's amazing works by David Hoey and his window design team are going to be pretty hard to top. We read that Hoey and his team drew inspiration for this year's theme of year-round journey with seasonal muses in ethereal white-on-white schemes from the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History.
The window displays include haute couture and antiques.
The design team might have been channeling some creative energy from Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for this window; it reminded us of the "Tonight, Tonight" video.
We weren't able to see them all so we'll have to go back to see them in its entirety, including those of the men's department across the street. In the meantime, we were able to find some of the other window displays we haven't seen yet online here. Here's some of our favorites, including this great scene of playing chess with an owl on the edge of a snowy cliff.
The great thing about these window displays is that they're free works of art for the rest of us to enjoy and appreciate - for those that can't afford or don't necessarily want to enter the world of Bergdorf's society on the other side of these windows.
It's interesting that a store like this had such humble beginnings - from a small tailor shop opened by an immigrant to this grandiose store at the site of the Vanderbilt mansion.