From department stores to designer boutiques, see pictures of the best Christmas window displays of 2011
From department stores to designer boutiques, see pictures of the best Christmas window displays of 2011
Harvey Nichols London
For Christmas 2011 the Harvey Nichols display team have created a frosty winter wonderland for their Knightsbridge flagship complete with horse-drawn carriages, whales diving into the frozen abyss and mannequins trapped in giant blocks of ice. Oversized snowflakes, glittering icicles and neon lights complete the contemporary Christmas feel.
Harvey Nichols Christmas windows
Harvey Nichols Christmas windows
Harvey Nichols Christmas windows
Harrods London
This festive season Harrods has joined forces with Swarovski to create a pretty twinkling Christmas feel for the Brompton Road windows. The display features an ice cool crystal forest think The Chronicles of Narnia meets Midsummer Night's Dream complete with fairy light adorned trees, white swans and the best of the store's designer fashion ware.
Harrods Christmas windows
Harrods Christmas windows
Selfridges London
For Selfridges' Oxford Street windows in London, the famous department store teamed up with creative outfit Condiment Junkie to create displays based on Christmas carols. Each window has been transformed into an enchanting oversized music box all angelic white, halos, festive crackers and bells and what's more, the windows actually play music. No, really! The glass pane acts as a loudspeaker equipped with a state-of-the-art touch-screen system for shoppers to stop and start each track based on famous carols as they wish, with each window playing a different tune. Genius.
Selfridges Christmas windows
Selfridges Christmas windows
Louis Vuitton London
The circus has come to town for Louis Vuitton's New Bond Street boutique this Christmas, complete with harlequin printed drapes, seesawing elephants with the classic logoed trunks, trapeze artist mannequins and gymnastic mice. Love.
Louis Vuitton Christmas windows
Louis Vuitton Christmas windows
Liberty London
From bird cages, swans, music boxes, snowflakes and peacock feathers galore, Liberty's festive window displays based on the Twelve Days of Christmas are a treat for the eyes. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a shopping spree at Liberty? Here's hoping.
Liberty Christmas windows
Liberty Christmas windows
Fortnum & Mason London
Iconic London store Fortnum & Mason, meanwhile, has taken to the stage for Christmas 2011 with a showgirl-inspired scene. With an abundance of velvet, plume and sparkle the windows on the capital's Piccadilly create an opulent 1930s feel with heaps of feather adorned entertainers, carousels and backstage beauty parlours.
Fortnum & Mason Christmas windows
Fortnum & Mason Christmas windows
