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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bergdorf Goodmans goes to the Birds!

Of yesterday's post jeanette mistress of longears commented...

A wonderful flight of fancy today.

Funny that birds should be so associated with the holidays...

It seems more appropriate for this Bergdorf Goodman Xmas window... Absolutely chock-a-block with birds... And titled "SPRING"!!?? What would you retitle it? Shall I make this one of those blog contests? OK! The BEST retitling of this window gets this "BIRD" watercolor!!! Rules of the contest...
Please live in the USA!
You have until MIDNIGHT today, Tuesday to leave your title here in the comments!!!

Emailed titles don't count.



This dog baying at the moon was not part of the bird-themed window...
But this baby with beans was...
This cock-eyed reading cockatoo went in upside down and refused to co-operate! :(
Are there literary references here?

There certainly are plenty of bookish birds present for sure!
Here's a full view of the bird-themed window, so put your thinking caps on and get cracking!

BONNE CONTEST!

58 comments:

  1. It's fun! We chose the same windows!!!!! I'm a big fan of Bergdorf!

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  2. I suggest "Flights of Fantasy"

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  3. Anonymous8:35 AM

    Bonjour...
    I know I can't enter but I would call it:
    "Fanciful Flight meets the White Knight"

    Merci and Good Luck everybody - A "Bird" painting will soon belong to a lucky one of you.

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  4. I suggest "Hiver Exotica".

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  5. Anonymous8:58 AM

    "I'm Dreaming of a White...Bird..." This window is magical!

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  6. Birds of a feather...celebrate together!

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  7. Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Let's Fly the Coop

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  8. How about? "Les Oiseaux Windows"
    Love your blog...have you seen the latest Williams Sonoma Catalog...they are selling parisian macarons!

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  9. Wings of Desire

    Up the Oiseau

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  10. Birds of Paradise

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  11. How about "Frosted Featers dans la Fenetre" ?

    I love your blog! Thank you for taking me to Paris or NYC daily!

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  12. I suggest: La Fete des Oiseaux. Margaret B. - Atlanta

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  13. Anonymous9:34 AM

    Vitrine Vitré ?

    D UK (I know I'm disqualified)

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  14. So magical! I would call it Winter's Secret Garden.

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  15. How about: "White Chocolate Window"

    Just think if you could eat up everything in there!

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  16. Anonymous10:08 AM

    la fête Noël sous la neige

    I hope I didn't mess this up too much!
    It looks like someone's dream of a white Christmas party.

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  17. Anonymous10:09 AM

    She's gone to the birds!

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  18. They're magical! I'm not good at this kind of thing...Reves des oiseaux d'hiver? (dreams of winter birds?) Gorgeous!

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  19. "Wondrous Winged Whimsey"

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  20. This window is just amazing!
    For titles, hm... "The Snow Queen's Parlor"?

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  21. How about Winter Birdy Wonderland

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  22. Anonymous11:18 AM

    This is a true magic moment, bravo !
    lilidebretagne

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  23. How about: "Les oiseaux magiques du ressort"?
    (the magic birds of spring?)
    Love the blog!
    ~Debra

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  24. My mind went crazy with ideas! I hope it's OK that I submited all these. I'm desperate. I want that painting!! :~)

    Nancy

    Le mystère de l'hiver
    The mystery of winter

    Magical Flights
    Vols magique

    Hiver ailes
    Winter wings

    Sur les ailes de l'hiver
    On the wings of winter

    Magical Flights
    Vols magique

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  25. Anonymous12:12 PM

    I suggest "Aviary on Ice" for your contest.

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  26. Anonymous12:21 PM

    Pardon my fractured French:

    La maison de Jadis

    This is exactly how I would imagine Jadis, the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia, at home!

    Kind of creepy, actually....

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  27. Anonymous12:57 PM

    Going to the Birds!

    Is Bergdorf Going to the Birds?

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  28. Anonymous1:09 PM

    Silent white - all is calm, all is bright.

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  29. Anonymous1:19 PM

    Hello,
    I have two suggestions. For now anyway. One is A Dove's Dream. the other (in my lousy French) reverie en ivoire or reverie in ivory.
    Marie

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  30. How about Folie sur l'aile blanche?

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  31. When looking at the window photo I thought..
    Winter's elegance. Then I thought
    Winter white, soft as feathers.

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  32. I love the literary birds. I think this proves that "bird brains" is a total fallacy.

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  33. I'd call it "A Mid-Winter Nest"

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  34. Anonymous4:33 PM

    Feather Fest Folly

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  35. All of the titles suggested so far are so great I don't know how you will pick just one. Perhaps you will have to draw straws? Living in FL I can't relate to all the white, it looks so cold. I guess I'll throw my suggestion in as "Lost Snowbirds" (they can't find their way to FL. ;-)

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  36. Hieronymus Bosch of Paradise

    Snowy migration

    The cabinet of ornithological curiosities

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  37. Paris Paints the Night

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  38. "Birds grace the snow, grace the sky."

    :D

    Thanks for the contest!

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  39. Anonymous9:21 PM

    A birdseye view of winter.

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  40. Anonymous9:22 PM

    Birds of a feather
    Get frosted together.

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  41. Anonymous9:27 PM

    Where birds go to blanche.

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  42. Anonymous9:27 PM

    Cool party!

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  43. oh what fun!!! and how strange to have the window titles "Spring"

    I think I will have to call it...
    "frosted wings"
    ailes givrées

    Have a wonderful evening!!!

    Hugs
    Diana

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  44. Anonymous11:06 PM

    'Babette beseiged by Bergdorf's bizarre bird bubble'
    or
    'Fabulous flock frozen in aspic'

    Thank you for a fun chance to win one of your beautiful paintings!

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  45. All I can think of when I look at it is "Feathered Femmes & Friends".

    It's quite the display, isn't it? I'd love to see your watercolor interpretation of it...
    Ms L

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  46. Titania, Queen of the Fairies

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  47. AMAZING window... soooooooooo beautiful! I have got to make a trip to NYC for Christmas!

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  48. Had I been "allowed" to share in the game, I would have said : "One bird in the window is worth two in the bush"!

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  49. Anonymous5:31 AM

    Bergdorf window, hmmm? Very interesting. Beautiful photo too Carol. I have no idea what I would rename this...but I agree with you, "Spring" certainly doesn't work for me...

    Les Oiseaux d'Hiver?

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  50. Anonymous5:34 AM

    Winter Solstice's Birds of a Feather
    or

    Birds of a Feather

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  51. Anonymous5:35 AM

    White Birds of a Feather

    Sue A.

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  52. Anonymous5:37 AM

    Bonjour,
    I signed up recently and love your daily emails.

    Here is my title:
    Caught Up In The Rapture Of Birdly Delights

    Thanks!

    Jessie C.

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  53. Anonymous5:37 AM

    Hi Carol,
    I call this " mystical night"
    Best,
    Melanie

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  54. My suggestion would be "An Aviary Apparition"

    It's gorgeous. Too bad the art of window dressing is limited to the big cities,it seems.

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  55. Anonymous12:06 PM

    I didn't want to muddy the contest waters with an irreverent post but my very first thought was "Pillow Fight!"

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  56. Ooh, I have another one. Sorry, but I can't get this contest off of my mind: "The Tiki Chici Room." My favorite place at Dineyland is the Tiki Room, "Where the birds all sing and the flowers bloom, in the tiki tiki room."

    One more and then I promise I'll quite:"Birds of a feather winter together."

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  57. Beautiful. Flocks of fun. ;-)

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  58. Late for the party but I see I am excluded anyway :( I have a great title but I can't share it.

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