The holiday magic of Macy’s begins at a Red Hook workshop
A sneak peek at the 2019 window displays.
It’s almost October, and you know what that means — time to start talking about Christmas.
If you’re a member of the Macy’s holiday window crew, spearheaded by Macy’s National Director of Window Presentation Roya Sullivan, then that conversation began in February or March. That’s when the team of roughly 200 artists, designers, sculptors, animators, carpenters, electricians and sound engineers start planning the holiday window displays for the retail giant’s flagship 34th Street store in Manhattan, almost immediately after the prior year’s displays are taken down.
Sullivan gave the Brooklyn Eagle a tour of the windows in the works at Standard Transmission studio, a Red Hook design and fabrication shop that’s been partnering with Macy’s for the past seven years to bring the concepts to life.