2024-12-16
26 分钟One of the many traditions in London at Christmas is to visit the capital’s festive lights. People travel from across the world to enjoy the colourful and eye-catching Christmas window displays along Oxford Street, one of London’s main shopping roads. Andrea Kidd goes behind the glitter and tinsel with the teams at the flagship department store Selfridges, as they prepare to reveal their Christmas windows to the public for the first time. The concept is More the Merrier this year and senior lead of the windows team, Bobbie Tree, along with the production, styling and design teams, work with renowned artists Andrew Logan and Charles Jeffreys, to create vibrant and flamboyant window displays for the millions of people who walk past.
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Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
Many around the world are gearing up for one of the most important days of the year, Christmas.
But for some people, they've been planning this event for quite some time.
So we get January and February out the way and then really it's straight back at it.
In the spring, Central London's cold winter nights are lit up by the glittering Christmas lights adorning so many of the roads in the capital.
The main shopping area has millions of tourists and locals alike flocking to buy presents and admiring the sparkling displays.
I'm Andrea Kidd and I'm finding out what goes into creating the Christmas windows at one of Oxford Street's flagship stores, Selfridges.
It's magical, actually.
It's quite nice to know that whilst.
Everyone'S so busy rushing by, we're creating these beautiful displays.
It's surprisingly warm at the beginning of October.
As I walk to their headquarters behind the store through a labyrinth of stairways and corridors, passing pallets of glassware, vases and the odd mannequin, I start to notice boxes piled high with colorful tinsel and baubles and multicolored glitter all over the floor, showing that I'm headed in the right direction for the creative presentation office.
I'm here to meet Bobby Tree, the senior lead of the windows team, the people responsible for the design, production and styling.
She reveals to me the secret theme of this year's windows.
The theme this year is more the merrier maximalism and all about clashing textures, clashing patterns, prints.
So usually we start with really broad research on the theme and what we landed on for this scheme is the idea of grottoes.
It's a natural or man made cave by the sea.
And what makes up a grotto?
So you can have man made grottoes, natural grottos, and then from that, really high octane grottoes full of lights, animation and Technicolor.