Oh, to be a window dresser...

I know that while my love for taxidermy chic may not be waning, it's becoming a bit of a cliche in the design world. HOWEVER, the folks at Bergodrf's created extravagantly beautiful windows for Christmas this year (unlike, say, Simon Doonan's windows at Barney's, which were yuck) . It's like a Russian Fairy tale or ballet snuggled up close to Deyrolle , got very tipsy together, and made diarama babies. Love it to death (get it?).

I did not see these when I was in New York a couple of weeks ago; the closest we came was being nearly crushed to death as we were walking from the Onassis Center to the American Girl store*, 1 block and 15 minutes apart, because in between was Saks Fifth Avenue and their windows, which we could not see at all, due to all of the bodies, including at least one unfortunate gentleman who was so overcome by the glory of it all that he passed out.


*This was, in retrospect, a really terrible idea- the girl perfectly understood that this was to be what we call a "museum experience", ie looking at pretty things that we did not allow ourselves to actually want, and I just wanted her to see the place- a long ago promise- but did not count on the Saturday after Christmas in Rockefeller Center being being crazy-populated and my father visibly seething with actual hate for the masses that were, in actual fact, teeming around us. I actually love the American Girl dolls and stories, but the whole experience was kind of vulgar.