{"id":939989,"date":"2016-11-17T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=939989"},"modified":"2016-11-17T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:15:58","slug":"south-park-cast-stars-in-barneyss-holiday-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=939989","title":{"rendered":"South Park Cast Stars in Barneys’s Holiday Window"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barneys New York\u2019s South Park<\/em> Window Humorously Upends Holiday Tradition<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Steff Yotka<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Think New York City holiday windows and visions of sugarplums will dance in your head? Not so at Barneys New York, where the luxury retailer has made a tradition of, well, ditching the traditional. Past installations have included a Baz Luhrmann collaboration with live performers; a literal, ever-growing ice castle; and a virtual sleigh ride. This year, however, the luxury retailer has really outdone itself. How? With the help of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and the characters from their riotously inappropriate TV show, South Park<\/em>. Yes, Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny are hanging out on Madison Avenue beside the store\u2019s other windows by Rob Pruitt, Nick Cave, and Studio Job. If this seems quite unexpected, the script the characters say is even more so. No, it\u2019s not graphic or politically incorrect, but it does include the phrase \u201cclothes suck.\u201d As a card-carrying \u201cfashion person,\u201d I couldn\u2019t help but laugh.<\/p>\n

Barneys is laughing too\u2014or at least, trying to brighten your spirits. The theme for the store\u2019s six windows this year (two downtown, four uptown) is Love, Peace, Joy, which was interpreted by artists including the South Park<\/em> duo, Pruitt, Cave, the pair behind Studio Job, and Ebony G. Patterson, who occupies the downtown space. \u201cWe knew it could be a difficult year ahead. The idea of Love, Peace, Joy came out of that,\u201d explained Barneys creative director Dennis Freedman, who chose the artists for their ability to subvert expectations of what could be a hippie-dippie theme.<\/p>\n

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Barneys New York holiday window by Studio Job.<\/p>\n

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Freedman wanted to move beyond solely working with fine artists or fashion folk, which is how the South Park<\/em> creators came into the conversation. \u201cThe idea of working with South Park<\/em> was ideal for us. It was our number one choice to kind of bridge to television and entertainment . . . the idea of collaborating with this subversive and brilliant, iconic television show really appealed to us. It was almost the perfect match. The only problem was, we thought they\u2019d never do it,\u201d said Freedman.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say, it didn\u2019t take much convincing. \u201cThis is the first thing like this that anyone has asked us to do. Because I\u2019m such a fan of holiday windows and dioramas it immediately made sense to me. And Barneys New York is in our neighborhood; we shop there all the time,\u201d said Parker in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s really fun for me; we have our tradition of walking around New York and looking in holiday windows, and it will be fun that one of them is mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barneys New York holiday window by Rob Pruitt.<\/p>\n

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Together Barneys and South Park<\/em> rendered the kids of South Park<\/em> in 3-D and wrote a punchy script for them to say with the help of projections by the company Christie. \u201cIt is the contrast between all the windows that I think make it something that people will enjoy. You literally walk from one world to the other. We\u2019ve never done that,\u201d said Freedman.<\/p>\n

For all the levity, there is an important message beneath the jokes. \u201cI think the key word is inclusivity<\/em>. The idea of the fact that we\u2019re embracing many different ways of living, different cultures, every unique individual. That is a very important part of who we are and it\u2019s something that we will always, hopefully, continue,\u201d said Freedman. \u201cWe believe in the goodness of people, and that is something that is very important to our identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/south-park-cast-stars-in-barneyss-holiday-window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Runway Barneys New York\u2019s South Park Window Humorously Upends Holiday Tradition By Steff Yotka November 17, 2016 Photo: Courtesy of Barneys New York Think New York City holiday windows and visions of sugarplums will dance in your head? Not so at Barneys New York, where the luxury retailer has made a tradition of, well, ditching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-939989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-vogue-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/939990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}