"Window shopping" is when one visits a store or mall to admire goods rather than to purchase them. The 'shopper' seems to be looking so intently at the glass in storefront windows that he appears to want to buy the window itself, hence 'window shopping'. Some time the seller ask: "You seem to be really interested in that dress. Do you plan on getting it?" and your answer usually is: "No, I'm just window shopping."
As many New Yorkers, window shopping it's my favorite past time, here in New York, specially by Christmas season, and I love walking on my days off by Fifth Avenue and, of course, visiting my favorite windows at Bergdorf Goodman, where this year the subject is the Arts, where each window represents a different art forms, that underline fashion, as Architecture, Dance, Films, Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture, and Theater.
THE ARTS: MUSIC.
- Everything shine on “Music", where a trumpeting mannequin is surrounded by a gleaming texture composed of brass instruments.
THE ARTS: ARCHITECTURE.
- In “Architecture” a glamorous mannequin is surrounded by towers, Ionic columns, lamps and implements used by architects.
THE ARTS: PAINTING.
- The colorless, hand painted Dolce & Gabbana dress, that’s only available to the public by custom order, is the only fashion point in this window where the unpainted items are broken by the only segment of color, a colorful picture by artist John Gordon Gauld.
THE ARTS: LITERATURE.
- On Literature, the background texture is full of portraits of Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare and Herman Melville and bust of Homer and Edgar Allan Poe.
THE ARTS: THEATER.
- This window epitomizes Theater shows of Broadway in New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas, with their own language of lights flashing on stage and off, on the theater marquees.
THE ARTS: DANCE.
- A dancer mannequin turning in complex and synchronized mechanism, simulating the antique musical coffers of our grandmothers, was the inspiration for this showcase.
THE ARTS: SCULPTURE.
- Could not miss the winter theme and this was precisely the subject selected for 'Sculpture', where a mannequin was framed and surrounded by stalactites and elaborate ice sculptures.
THE ARTS: FILM.
- And the seventh art could not be left behind reflected in this monochromatic and glamorous window that reflects the atmosphere of the golden age of cinema when the movies were in black and white.
If you are in New York, or you are planning to come over by Christmas season, do not miss going to 'window shopping' and visit Bergdorf Goodman's windows, that will be through January 2nd on 58th Street and 5th Avenue.
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