NEW YORK.
If you’re one to admire holiday windows each year of Bergdorf Goodman, you know that they’re not one to celebrate the obvious. David Hoey and windows team prefer dazzling with the deceptively simple and quiet element of surprise. This year their Fifth Avenue windows imagined a variety of time-honored holidays cast in a frozen landscape. Holidays on Ice, explained Hoey, “give(s) equal billing to a year’s worth of holidays—not only the wintry ones. All of them will be icebound. Even the Fourth of July.” This isn’t the first time Hoey has celebrated classic American holidays; once our 58th street windows dedicated themselves to June’s Flag Day while in years past Fifth Avenue adopts a witchy October splendor.
Introduced Tuesday night via an icy spectacular, Fifth Avenue’s large windows celebrate Arbor Day, the Fourth of July, April Fool’s Day, Valentine’s Day and Halloween, while the avenue’s smaller windows continue in theme with Thanksgiving, Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve and Groundhog Day.
Photos: copyrights © Ricky Zehavi.
