Since 1983, Women in Need has assisted homeless families by ensuring that they have housing. Last week a group of bloggers were brought in to preview homes that were made by various notables for the Home for the Holidays Campaign within the fashion and entertainment industries including Vera Wang, Isaac Mizrahi, Sean Combs, Debra Messing and more. Once these homes were unveiled here, they were placed within Saks windows here in NYC from Nov 5th - Nov 9th (if you're in the area today and looking to see them in person, definitely check it out) to be auctioned in order to assist the organization to continue working with families not only as a means to have a place to live but to move forward with their goals for the future through stable housing, education and more.

The depth of the program and the continuing services that WIN provides is astounding. From the beginning of being included within the program to the point where many families receive transitional or permanent residences, they can receive valuable information on employment training/placement, HIV/AIDS prevention, domestic violence prevention and more. Learn more about the organization and how you can help by visiting Charity Buzz, you can see the houses that were made and also put in a bid for one of the houses as well. Above is a video from the CEO and Founder Bonnie Stone, and a few designers that participated in this project!

When you think the holiday season, people instantly think about NYC and their amazing holiday windows. Not to put anything against the holiday season but one of the things that I love most about the windows is that throughout the year you can see dynamic windows. On days where I have time, I love hitting the windows and seeing how everything is put together. Maybe I love it because once upon a time ago I was a Visual Merchandiser and I worked windows and setups for Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch (yes I opened the 5th Ave store) and American Girl Place (opened that store too on 5th Ave). Whenever my team would work on the windows at AGP, we always saw the Saks window team doing phenomenal displays and secretly I always wanted to be over there! Of course the epitome of windows (in my opinion) are those of Bergdorf Goodman! Whether it's the holiday or some amazing collaboration, I could stare at their windows for hours!

So, I found myself on a bit of a rainy day with nothing to do and realized that this week, the windows of Bergdorf Goodman would have the Douglas Little Dell X Adamo collaboration! This storybook themed display is my absolute favorite and I'm definitely salavating over the laptops! The last time I was this intrigued was when Vivienne Tam had the HP Mini red clutch laptops hit the runways of Fashion Week - but this is to an entirely different level!

I took the video on an evening (the best way to see any windows) when there weren't too many people (another good part of seeing windows outside of the holiday season is that you have a lot more access and less people around you) so I apologize for the bumps or if the sound isn't right.

The images that are placed throughout this post came from one of THE go to places when you're talking about windows, displays, finding jobs within this portion of the industry etc - Fashion Windows (more pics are also available here as well) and of course, Elle.com got in on the action as you can buy the laptops through them and you can see Erin Clements in detail comments about each of the laptops! Which one if my favorite - the Mother of Pearl of course would be perfect if I was trying to make an impression and had a super chic office! My everyday laptop would be the one within the Webmaster window as I would be less concerned about dirt!