Saks Windows

These are the window displays at Saks. I created a collage - it was too difficult to pick one photo. To see the entire window display set, click here. They are the windows I always associate with Christmas in New York - beautifully done, themed, on Fifth Avenue near all the flagship stores and St. Patricks, facing Rock Center and the big Tree. You wait in line to see the windows, but no one seems to complain. Moving slowly is welcome and gives more time to enjoy them. The in house visual creative staff creates these windows - the primary group has a storyline about outsider crystals finally joining together to become a unified snowflake. Christmas has become an extremely commercial holiday. But, no matter how jaded one becomes, frustrated with the crowds and traffic, or how disappointed one gets with the commercialism of Christmas, one should try not to become a bitter malcontent. Leave a place for sentiment, giving, nostalgia, and joy ...