![]() ![]() This is a Christmas window display that smacks of extravagance, innovation, sophistication and eccentricity. Somehow the juxtaposition of the luxury and the gaudy works. It’s all here, whooping and hollering out at you, challenging you not to be impressed. ![]() ![]() The hyped-up, brassy still-life set-ups seem to regard anything expected as simply a common affectation. The boisterous hijinks exploding from the excesses of the Harvey Nicks window scene currently unfolding in Knightsbridge makes it seem as though our otherwise conscientious elves are throwing an X-rated delivery day after-party of thumping proportions somewhere inside the store. All this via a series of blushingly voyeuristic internal carriage scenes, the passing scenery of flat-screen ’train-windows’ and the audio track chugchugging romantically onto the street. It borrows directly from that same luxury vernacular Chanel No 5 got Jean-Pierre Jeunet to shoot and cut into an indulgent TV commercial, and one that in this instance, manages to hurtle us through the Swiss Alps, blast us through the urban terrain of somewhere that must be Shanghai, back to London, over to Paris, err, past the great wall of China, and then somewhere between the window sills four and five we must have crossed the Atlantic, we’re in New York – circling Central Park. To stroll from one end to the other is to leap between the carriages of the ‘Harrods Christmas Express’. Upon approach and judging by the elbowed jostle, this appeared a high real-estate piece ‘o’ pavement. When a store has a mission statement that declares ‘…through a combination of product, innovation and eccentricity, we aim to provide every customer with a truly unforgettable experience in our quintessentially British environment…’ my expectations for what lay behind the Harrods Christmas glazing are high. ![]()
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