HEAD TRIPS; HATS OFF TO BARNEYS CREATIVE DIRECTOR SIMON DOONAN, WHOSE SINGULAR IMAGINATION IS REFLECTED IN SOME OF THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT HOLIDAY WINDOWS IN NEW YORK.

Daily News Record, November, 2001 by LIPKE, DAVID

Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Joel Schumacher were all window dressers at one point in their lives. But none became quite as dexterous at wielding a glue gun and arranging mannequins in a shop window as Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys New York.

This Christmas marks the 16th year the "diminutive doyenne of design," as Doonan is sometimes known to call himself, has created the show-stopping holiday windows for Barneys. "We've taken all the traditional iconography of Christmas and done something fun with it," says Doonan. "We ...