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Linda Fargo is an American fashion business executive. Since 2006, she has served as the senior vice president of the fashion office and as the director of women's fashion and store presentation for the
Bergdorf Goodman department store in
New York City.[1]
Fargo joined Berdorf Goodman as the display director in June 1996.[4][5] Fargo was one of eighteen Manhattan window-display designers that collaborated on the
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's The Window Show in May 1999.[6][7] That year she was both vice president for visual presentations and director of visual merchandising.[8][9] She and Robert Burke designed the 2001
Whitney Museum of American Art's annual gala called Nightclub as Monument, inspired on New York
café society and the museum's retrospective of
Edward Steichen's photographic works from the 1920s and 1930s.[10]
After the
September 11 attacks, Fargo and her team "completely readjusted" their display plans, which were originally going to be "an homage to the arts", instead focusing on having each window facing
Fifth Avenue decorated in a separate value or virtue,[11] while the
57th Street windows were a black-and-white collage of
New York landmarks, and the
58th Street windows centered around children.[12] One of the Fifth Avenue windows that year was highlighted by The New York Times as capturing the transition between "traditional sparkles and reds to a quieter, neutral wheat and organic palette" in holiday tastes.[13]Assouline published Dreams Through the Glass: Windows from Bergdorf Goodman, written by Fargo herself, the $50 book was a retrospective of her displays, which Harper's Bazaar called "designs [which] prove that at its most sublime, window dressing is an art form."[14][15][16]
At Bergdorf, she works with
David Hoey, the present window dresser and senior director for visual presentation, with whom she creates "about 450 windows a year."[17]
In 2013 she was featured in the documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (the title lifted from the caption of a 1990
Victoria Roberts cartoon that appeared in pages of The New Yorker).[19]Variety said of Fargo in its review of the film, "Bergdorf's fashion director, Linda Fargo, effortlessly commands centerstage for long stretches as she vets new designers' collections for kindly 'maybe later' rejection or 'welcome to the family' acceptance."[20]
Bibliography
Hoey, David; Linda, Fargo (2010). Windows at Bergdorf Goodman. Assouline.
ISBN978-1614280828.