New York City’s holiday windows

At Saks, a mannequin is afloat on a cloud above India’s Taj Mahal.

Snoopy, that famous World War I flying ace, and Charlie Brown in a Macy’s window.

The window featuring the Peanuts gang at Macy’s took more than a year of work.

Lord & Taylor has constructed a pine-bough canopy with twinkling lights over the entire sidewalk on the west side of Fifth Avenue fronting the store windows.

This confection of a window at Lord & Taylor represents the theme “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.”

You have to smell it to believe it: The light-and-gold tree in the Bloomingdales store window emits a scent of fresh-cut pine.

It’s no bed of roses being one of Santa’s reindeer -- or is it? This Jeff Leatham-designed window shows the antlers surrounded by crimson roses.

Millions of Swarovski jewels are used in the five windows of Bergdorf Goodman, where the theme is “Brilliant Holiday.”

King Neptune is encrusted with pearls in the Treasure Chest window at Bergdorf Goodman.

“Chillin’ Out” is the theme at Barneys. Its windows show weather scenes, including one done in collaboration with glass artist Dale Chihuly.