Saks' Dumpster-Dived Window Displays
Saks has a new window display up on 5th Avenue until this Thursday.
Animal blog reports that a Saks rep said, "we wanted to take ordinary things and make them look high end."
A lofty goal, indeed. Instead of reaching it, however, they've managed to make the dress look like a lazy lamp shade and the bottles of cleaning solution, confused. The only thing that looks good are the light tubes, which, presumably, are not for sale.
Gawker had a few words to say about these as well.
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That would be cool. I was also thinking of doing a feature where we put up a huge picture gallery of all the window displays down 5th ave and maybe other notables around the city.
Duh. We all know they are done by Hollywood and Andrew McCarthy. Occasionally Kim Cattral helps out too.
Rikomatic. All the Saks window displays are actually done in house. If you want to talk the very happy, and I mean gay happy manager, ask for the Visual Deparment. I believe his name was David.
the other window features derek zoolander, i suppose.
Consumerist, you should do a story on who designs all those window displays. I presume it's a big business with some standout artists in high demand and lots of folks who just pay their cousin who did a semester at Cooper Union to do it.
Or better yet, interview the window designer at Saks. That would be awesome.