Saks Fifth Avenue welcomed the holidays with fire and ice.
The luxury retailer revealed its seasonal windows celebrating the wonders of winter on Monday with elaborate eye- and ear-popping visuals and vocal displays.
A dazzling light show lit up the facade of the store that’s been turned into a winter palace inside and out, as fireworks flashed on the roof of building. On the street, a choir of 200 assembled between 49th and 50th Sts. for a rousing rendition of “Carol of the Bells.”
Window installations along Fifth Ave. mixed fashion and famous locales. Scenes reimagined wonders around the world, from Egypt to France to China, in subzero deep freezes.
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In one, a frosty mermaid immersed herself in the frozen Great Barrier Reef. In another, a mighty gladiatrix took stock of her Colosseum.
“It’s all really creative. I love all the moving parts of the reef scene,” said Shelley Neves, a graphic designer visiting New York from Seattle.
Someone pointed out the colosseum warrior, in her skimpy silver get-up, wasn’t really dressed for Monday evening’s 38-degree weather.
But Neves had it all figured out.
“That woman doesn’t have to be dressed for winter,” she said. “She is winter.”
