Barneys windows that just met their end, first posted by Racked.com.
In a city where visuals are everything, some window displays in Barneys New York just met a swift death.
A recent display of mannequins depicted meeting violent ends while wearing the likes of Helmut Lang and A.L.C. was deemed inappropriate by some customers and pulled by management. Creative Director for Barneys, Simon Doonan, said the displays went up while he was out of town. The displays came down shortly after inquiries from the press yesterday afternoon.
Public response to the displays, which lined East 61st Street, ranged from artistic approval to openly offended. Doonan noted that while Barneys tries to give its window dressers creative license, "this clearly crossed a line." "It's as if someone saw a bad Hitchcock movie," he added.
Racked.com was first to report the bloody window displays Monday.
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Comments
No. A few adults made the adult decision that one more violent and degrading mysogenistic image probably wasn't necessary. And, (most importantly) not likely to sell many dresses.
As far as any "artistic" value - that point is mute. While certainly talented, window dressers are not employed to make dramatic artistic statement. they are employed to sell products.
It is also obvious that the "artistic interpretation" was the work of a youngster not quite aware that already, interminably over the past 40 years, the exact imagery has been constructed in every venue from Mod Art to film to the cola wars on TV and print.
Nothing new, nothing cutting edge. Tedious at best.
No message. No content. No meaning.