BARNEYS NEW YORK AND THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY LAUNCH ELECTRIC HOLIDAY, ITS HOLIDAY 2012 PROGRAM

BARNEYS NEW YORK, the luxury specialty retailer, and THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, the world’s leading entertainment company, launched the 2012 HOLIDAY project ELECTRIC HOLIDAY at the BARNEYS NEW YORK MADISON AVENUE FLAGSHIP STORE last night. A multi-platform initiative infused with fashion and fantasy, ELECTRIC HOLIDAY merges the creativity and magic of DISNEY with the wit and surprise of the legendary BARNEYS NEW YORK annual holiday project to create a celebration of festive modern electric lights, music and fashion.

Barneys New York And The Walt Disney Company Announce Holiday 2012 Campaign: Electric Holiday. (PRNewsFoto/Barneys New York)

“Disney is proud to be part of New York’s holiday magic this year,” said ROBERT A. IGER, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY. “Together with Barneys, we’ve created a one-of-a-kind experience that combines Disney’s great characters and storytelling with high fashion for a spectacular celebration of the season.”

THE ELECTRIC HOLIDAY PRODUCT LINE 
BARNEYS NEW YORK and DISNEY have worked to create a range of EXCLUSIVE (XO EXCLUSIVELY OURS), LIMITED-EDITION HOLIDAY GIFT ITEMS, available now for a limited time only at CHELSEA PASSAGE on the NINTH FLOOR in BARNEYS’ MADISON AVENUE FLAGSHIP location in New York, at the company’s BEVERLY HILLS FLAGSHIP location, and www.Barneys.com.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Minnie Mouse at the launch of Electric Holiday with Disney at Barneys New York. (PRNewsFoto/Barneys New York, BFA / David X

In honor of this special project, 25% of the retail price of all items in the ELECTRIC HOLIDAY COLLECTION sold exclusively in select BARNEYS NEW YORK stores and online at www.Barneys.com through January 3rd, 2013, will be donated to AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF.

Sarah Jessica Parker Helps Celebrate Disney’s Electric Holiday At Barneys New York’s Launch of Electric Holiday (courtesy: http://www.imnotobsessed.com)

The product assortment includes Disney’s highly collectible Vinylmation figures designed by PAUL SMITH and DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, Mickey Mouse ears designed by RAG & BONE and L’WREN SCOTT, and smaller items such as holiday ornaments, edible sweets, toys for children, and much more.

In addition to the Electric Holiday product assortment, there will also be a curated selection of vintage memorabilia available at the MADISON AVENUE FLAGSHIP location, including a vintage Mickey watch, a signed biography of Walt Disney and specialty vintage Disney toys.

Atmosphere on Madison Avenue at launch of Electric Holiday with Disney at Barneys New York. (PRNewsFoto/Barneys New York, Stephen Wilkes)

THE ELECTRIC HOLIDAY MYSTERY GIFT CARD HUNT
To celebrate this special event, BARNEYS NEW YORK hosted a New York City-wide scavenger hunt for gift cards on November 14. A “MICKEY MESSENGER” was posted at various locations throughout Manhattan, and only by following clues on Twitter (@BarneysNY) and Instagram (BarneysNYofficial) were participants able to find him. When participants found the MICKEY MESSENGER—identifiable from his Mickey Mouse ears—they simply gave him the secret password to receive a mystery gift card with a value anywhere from $25 to $500. One lucky grand-prize winner received tickets to the evening’s window unveiling event.

As part of the ELECTRIC HOLIDAY PROGRAM, 25% of sales from the limited-edition ELECTRIC HOLIDAY PRODUCT COLLECTION sold at select Barneys stores and online at www.Barneys.com will be donated to the AMERICAN RED CROSS. This is in addition to the $2 million dollars THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY has already pledged to support relief efforts, including $1 million to the RED CROSS for immediate relief and an additional $1 million to support rebuilding efforts in Hurricane Sandy-affected communities.  In addition, the DISNEY/ABC TELEVISION GROUP organized a national “DAY OF GIVING” on Nov. 6 2012, seamlessly integrating outreach messaging across various programming and raising more than $18 million for the AMERICAN RED CROSS.

Products in the Electric Holiday 2012 Program

“Disney is a magical brand and Barneys New York is a surprising brand.  We feel we’ve captured both the magic and the surprise with this holiday project,” said MARK LEE, BARNEYS NEW YORK CEO. “It has been a dream to collaborate with Disney and we at Barneys are grateful that they found it intriguing to mix characters from our different worlds in this way.”

THE ELECTRIC HOLIDAY WINDOWS
The ELECTRIC HOLIDAY program and the MADISON AVENUE flagship’s windows were unveiled last night at an in-store event featuring ‘Electric Holiday’, a moving art video starring MINNIE MOUSE on a fun, fabulous fashion adventure in Paris, along with an array of notable fashion personalities and DISNEY characters.

Using innovative technology and hardware, the MADISON AVENUE STORE WINDOWS features unique display technology using Christie® MicroTiles® from CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC, on which the video will play. Working with D3 TECHNOLOGIES‘ integrated production system which power the core of the show, utilizing five 4U servers generating 20 simultaneous HD video streams.  An OSRAM BUSINESS, TRAXON, the dynamic lighting and controls manufacturer, supplied almost 500 square feet of LED Mesh and String, as well as intelligent controls to add a layer of video to the window display.

(Consistently setting the standards by being the first to market some of the world’s most advanced projectors and complete system displays, Christie is recognized as one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world.  From retail displays to Hollywood, mission critical command centers to classrooms and training simulators, Christie display solutions and projectors capture the attention of audiences around the world with dynamic and stunning images.)

Capturing the essence of the highly stylized fashion world along with the electrically-charged colors and brilliant lights of the magical world of DISNEY, the video begins with Minnie dreaming of the glamour of Paris. In her dream, she is whisked away to the City of Light, where she comes face to face with revered fashion personalities and takes the runway along with MICKEY MOUSE, DAISY DUCK, and more in fabulous designer fashions. The storyline concludes happily when MINNIE wakes up and MICKEY presents her with the same designer dress she has just sported in her dream on the catwalk.

The moving art video was conceived to be a playful interpretation of the high fashion world, and will screen for a six-week period in the MADISON AVENUE STORE WINDOWS, as well as in BARNEYS FLAGSHIP STORES across the country. To help bring the show to life, Oscar®-winning composer MICHAEL GIACCHINO has created an original score. The video is exclusively on www.barneys.com, www.Disney.com and www.AOL.com.

Electric Holiday: Minnie Mouse in Alber Elbaz, Daisy Duck in DOLCE & GABBANA and Goofy in BALMAIN BY OLIVIER ROUSTEING

Minnie Mouse in Lanvin Paris by Alber Elbaz

 

The ELECTRIC HOLIDAY MOVING ART VIDEO will be displayed in all BARNEYS NEW YORK FLAGSHIP markets including BEVERLY HILLS, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO, BOSTON, SCOTTSDALE, DALLAS and SEATTLE, as well as on www.Barneys.com and its luxury content site, THE WINDOW.

Fashion personalities featured within the moving art video include:

• Photographers: STEVEN MEISEL, MARIO SORRENTI and JUERGEN TELLER
• Front Row Personalities: SARAH JESSICA PARKER, DAPHNE GUINNESS, LADY GAGA, NAOMI CAMPBELL, LINDA EVANGELISTA AND BRYAN BOY
• Backstage: GUIDO PALAU, PAT MCGRATH, JULIEN D’YS, ALBER ELBAZ, NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE AND ED FILIPOWSKI
• Editors: GLENDA BAILEY, BRIDGET FOLEY, EMMANUELLE ALT, SUZY MENKES, FRANCA SOZZANI, CARINE ROITFELD, CATHY HORYN and ANNA DELLO RUSSO

Each Disney character is dressed in a one-of-a-kind exclusive look created by some of the most influential fashion designers in the world, including:

• Mickey Mouse in BALENCIAGA BY NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE
• Goofy in BALMAIN BY OLIVIER ROUSTEING
• Daisy in DOLCE & GABBANA
• Minnie Mouse in LANVIN BY ALBER ELBAZ
• Snow White in NINA RICCI BY PETER COPPING
• Tiana in PROENZA SCHOULER
• Cruella de Vil in RICK OWENS

THE ELECTRIC HOLIDAY SPONSORS
BARNEYS NEW YORK and DISNEY have collaborated with AOL and AIR FRANCE, to help further engage the consumer with the Electric Holiday program.

Together, they created a co-branded media experience surrounding the ELECTRIC HOLIDAY PROJECT. Acting as the project’s digital arm, AOL’s STYLELIST brings the legendary window online with an exclusive showing of the animated short film and behind-the-scenes footage.

AIR FRANCE is supporting the Holiday 2012 project with an integrated promotion to include a nationwide sweepstakes inviting shoppers and Facebook fans to enter to win a trip to Paris, including two roundtrip business class airline tickets on AIR FRANCE, four night hotel accommodations at the HOTEL SOFITEL PARIS LE FAUBOURG, a $5,000 wardrobe and luggage from Barneys New York, and two tickets to DISNEYLAND PARIS.

BARNEYS NEW YORK (Barneys) is a luxury specialty retailer with flagship stores in NEW YORK CITY, BEVERLY HILLS, CHICAGO, SEATTLE, BOSTON, DALLAS, SAN FRANCISCO, LAS VEGAS, and SCOTTSDALE. The Company also operates a highly successful online business at www.Barneys.com. Founded as a men’s retailer in 1923 in downtown Manhattan, it turned into an international arbiter of high style for both women and men in the 1970s and became renowned for discovering and developing new and innovative design talent. BARNEYS is famous for selling the most intriguing edit from the world’s top designers, including women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and gifts for the home, and its signature sense of wit and style is manifested in its creative advertising campaigns, original holiday themes, and celebrated window displays. Barneys’ innovative CO-OP was launched in 1985 and has since expanded into a freestanding store concept operating more than a dozen locations in eight states across the U.S.

 

For more information about BARNEYS NEW YORK, please visit www.Barneys.com and explore its luxury content site, THE WINDOW (http://thewindow.barneys.com/), for an insider’s look into the Barneys world: behind-the-scenes visits with exciting designers, fashion, events, and the Barneys team.

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