Bridget Foley’s Diary: Window Dressing the Barneys Way — Fearlessly

At night on Madison Avenue, diners coming and going from Fred’s at Barneys New York typically generate the primary activity for blocks. Yet on Wednesday evening, a quiet intensity disrupted that typical 9 p.m. calm. An assemblage of creative working types patrolled the half-block occupied by the store, focused on perfecting a major installation. As reported, the two-part window exhibit opening today at both Barneys’ outposts, Madison downtown and Seventh Avenue, corresponds with next week’s unveiling of the Rei Kawakubo exhibit at the Met. The retailer’s project juxtaposes the designer’s work against that of another brilliant female artist, Louise Bourgeois, who left a prolific and diverse body of work when she passed away in 2010 at the age of 98. “They’ve gone too far,” one departing Fred’s diner, a chic fortysomething woman, was overheard expressing to her companion. Whether she’s right or wrong depends upon one’s perspective. By any measure, the exhibit is audacious and fascinating, sure to captivate Kawakubo devotees, Bourgeois acolytes, art-fashion-pop-culture-big-event junkies and the merely curious. Certainly anyone planning to take in the Met exhibit through its first five weeks during which the windows will be installed would be remiss not to allot time to also visit both Barneys

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