NEW YORK- The worlds of design and fashion converged at Bergdorf Goodman for a dazzling evening to celebrate Linda Fargo’s holiday windows Dreams Through the Glass and book of the same name (Assouline, Nov) and Swarovski’s Crystal Palace, a spectacular collection of haute couture chandeliers designed exclusively for Swarovski. Linda Fargo’s crystal dreamscape of holiday windows captivated guests, and the Crystal Palace collection provided the perfect compliment to Bergdorf Goodman’s holiday decor. Everything from the windows to the chandeliers to the blossom design motif on the walls to entrance carpet sparkled with Swarovski crystal - it was magical and dreamlike. Crystal Palace was conceived by Nadja Swarovski, Vice President of International Communications, and created by renowned artists, including Vincent Van Duysen, Marcel Wanders, Tom Dixon, Job Smeets, Michael Anastassiades, Tord Boontje, Paola Navone, Nigel Coates, and Georg Baldele. The innovative designs from Diane von Furstenberg and Ted Muehling made their world premier at the event, the two most recent additions to the collection. This exhibition marks the American debut of Swarovski’s Crystal Palace Collection. A total of eighteen pieces from Swarovski’s Crystal Palace are on exhibition at Bergdorf Goodman from November 21 through January 3. Guests of the evening included Nadja Swarovski, John Bartlett, Philip Bloch, Oleg Cassini, Cece Cord, Francisco Costa, Eric Javits, Ted Muehling, Maggie Norris, Rory Tahari, Diane von Furstenberg, Alix Browne, Allison Stern, Amanda Hearst, Arie Koppleman, Cornelia Guest, Cynthia Steffe, Dawn Mello, Kelly and Gilles Bensimon, Derek Lam, Tord Boontje, Helen and Tim Schifter, Holly Dunlap, Bettina Zilkha, Andrew Saffir, Vincent Van Duysen, Katrina Pavlos, Linda Fargo, Linda Hearst, Melissa Barrett Rhodes, Nanette Lepore, Richard Lambertson, Annie Churchill, Vanessa Swarovski, Richard Gluckman, Andre Balazs, Douglas Hannant, Richard Meier, John Loring, Michael Gabellini, Millie Martine Braten, Jack McCollough, Lazaro Hernandez, John Anthony, Christian Liaigre, Anne Grauso, Oberto Gili, Jason Pomeranc, Candy Pratts Price, George Wayne, Diane Broussard, Robert Ruffino, Amanda Ross, Adele Lutz, Anita Sarko, Stephen Dweck, Patricia Herrera, Cathy Hardwick, Vanessa von Bismarck, Vivienne Tam and Rufus Abemarle.

Dreams Through the Glass
USA- From the five-year-old’s model train set to the thirty-five-year-old’s Fall Gucci line, the longing, the desire, the hope that inspires us all to window gaze is a timeless, and ageless, pursuit. Window design is a vanishing métier, but it remains an enduring art form providing rare views through the glass into fantastic realms of dreams and fantasy. In these pages, Linda Fargo, the renowned window artist for Bergdorf Goodman, opens up her portfolio of magical tableaux created especially for this crown jewel of the retail world. Her palette is wonderfully rich and eclectic, juxtaposing relics of the past and the present, symbols of art and literature, Western culture and exotic lands, moving easily between the marvelous and the everyday. These windows continue to astonish and delight all who flock to them for the traditional annual Christmas displays, as well as the untold numbers of passerby who stop on the street year-round to gaze at them, getting caught up in their magic. Open these pages and you open yourself to Fargo’s enchanting worlds, visions rarely still encountered on strolls down the fashion avenues of the world. Available at Bergdorf Goodman, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere. Linda Fargo is the creative director for visual presentation at Bergdorf Goodman and has been designing the store’s acclaimed windows for the last seven years. She is known in her field as an innovator as well as for continuing the old-fashioned tradition of creating works of fantasy and romance in her store-window designs. For Press requests please contact Ryan Urcia at press@workhousepr.com. For press kit, high-resolution images and book excerpts please visit www.workhousepr.com.com/assouline/dreamsthroughtheglass