Lord & Taylor Holiday Window Displays

Lord & Taylor has been celebrating the holiday season by decorating their windows for passersby since 1938. This year's windows were inspired by an illustration from the 1940s that asked "What Is Christmas Made Of?" The displays feature illustrations drawn by children in response to this question, and scenes representing the kids' ideas, from sledding to seeing Santa.

This year's Lord & Taylor holiday window displays highlight popular Christmas traditions -- with animated window displays celebrating Christmas cards, Christmas treats, Christmas stories, Christmas ornaments, Christmas toys and Christmas songs.

Lord & Taylor's 2007 holiday windows depict scenes focused on experiencing the holiday season through each of the five senses in places around the world.
Photos: "Christmas is the Moment" Holiday Window Display

Each scene in Lord & Taylor's 2006 holiday windows features blow-ups of antique holiday postcards and staging to reflect the era in which the postcard was written.

Scenes from classic fairytales, including The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The Lord & Taylor holiday windows along Fifth Avenue feature scenes depicting the history of the United States Postal Service.

The 2003 holiday windows recall the story made famous by the 1897 editorial "Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus."