Holiday Gift Guide!

Hey everyone!
Hope you are hanging in there with finals! To get you in the holiday spirit, we have a post with a few holiday gift guide links and things to do if you are staying in the city over break. Enjoy!!

Gift Guides:

Check out the NY Times Holiday Gift Guide! The guide is broken down into different categories including: dining; home; music, movies, & games; style; books; travel; and New York City. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/holiday-gift-guide/#/?page=cover

Next up is Fabsugar's gift guide, which includes items for men, your friend who is a  fitness fanatic, finds for foodies, pop culture presents, and gifts for kids! http://www.fabsugar.com/gift-guide

Things to Do:
Staying in the city? Enjoy some of these holiday happenings compiled by our Special Events Manager, Hayley Kalata!

Holiday Shows and Events:

Now-Jan. 12 Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Gardens

      http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2013/holiday-train-show/index.php

Now-Dec. 30 Radio City Christmas Spectacular

Now-Jan. 4 The Nutcracker: New York City Ballet

Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 The New York Pops: Under the Mistletoe with Ashley Brown at Carnegie Hall

         http://www.carnegiehall.org/

Dec. 21 Greenwich Village Caroling Walk

http://westvillagechorale.org/messiah-sing-and-caroling-walk/

Holiday Windows:

  Bergdorf Goodman

  Lord & Taylor

  Barneys

  Bloomingdale's

  Macy's

  Saks Fifth Avenue

Ice Skating:

Rockefeller

visit: http://gonyc.about.com/od/iceskatinginnyc/p/iceskating_rock.htm

Bryant Park  http://gonyc.about.com/od/iceskatinginnyc/p/bryant_ice_rink.htm

Trump Rink(Wollman)   http://www.wollmanskatingrink.com/

Lasker Rink  http://www.laskerrink.com/

Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers    http://www.chelseapiers.com/sr/

The Standard Plaza  http://www.standardculture.com/posts/8311-Get-Your-Skate-On-

Brookfield Place http://www.therinkatbrookfieldplacenyc.com/home.html

See Change Ice Rink  http://www.southstreetseaport.com/events/

Lakeside Rink in Prospect Park http://www.prospectpark.org/about/lakeside#lefrak

Museum Exhibits:

The Met:

     Interwoven Globe

     Julia Margaret Cameron

     Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim

     Artists and Amateurs

     Balthus Cats and Girls

     http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions

 

The American Museum of Natural History:

     Penguins

     Whales: Giants of the Deep

     Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

     http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions

 

MoMA:

     Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938

     New Photography 2013

     Isa Genzken: Retrospective

     American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

     Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves

     http://www.timeout.com/newyork/attractions/current-exhibits-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-moma

 

 

 

WWD Wednesday: Designer Christmas Trees

 Christmas tree creations from fashion designers will be auctioned off for charity on December 9th at the Paris’ Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. Last year the event raised over $93,000 for cancer research. What a stylish way to spread holiday cheer! 

Here are some of this year's participating designers and their trees:

Jean Paul Gaultier

Chantal Thomass

Christian Dior

Kenzo Takada

Louis Vuitton

Read the full WWD article here: http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/designers-christmas-trees-unveiled-7298538

Happy Holidays from The Society and Merchandising Society!!!

WWD Wednesday: Barneys Unveils Holiday Windows

The holiday season is right around the corner, and what could get us FIT students more in spirit than the decoration of the store windows! Barneys unveiled their season's incredible windows at 10am this morning. The "Floating Skies" and "City Lights" windows seem to be inspired by a futuristic version of Manhattan. Much of the artwork is very angular and three-dimensional. The high tech interactiveness is taken to the next level in the "City Lights" window where people can actually sit inside on Santa's sleigh and take a trip across New York via an LED screen placed in front of them.

Oh what fun!

Here are some of the pictures from WWD:

And check out the Instagram videos of the window displays on the BarneysNYofficial account!

The Weekender December 7-9

Time Warner Center
If you haven't gone to see the twinkling stars at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle, then that needs to be added to your "to do" list! The stars are part of the light display, which has over a dozen 14-foot LED stars! The "Holiday Under the Stars" is at 5pm everyday until January 3rd! 






Union Square Holiday Market

With more than 100 vendors, the Union Square holiday market has different types of merchants selling jewelry, handcrafted gifts, leather goods, art, and much more! It's located at 14th Street to 17th Street, and it'll be here until December 24th, just in time for you to pick up some last minute Christmas gifts!





Columbus Circle Holiday Market
Another Market? Why not! There's PLENTY of market's that are open during the holidays here in New York City for everyone to buy their loved ones gifts! The Columbus Circle market will also lasting until December 24th! So go down and buy your family/friends some market gifts!





Source: Time Out NYC