Have The Fashion Police Stolen Christmas? Um … No.

John Galliano has designed a minimalist blue tree for Claridge’s in London. The tree, which takes it’s inspiration from icy snow scenes, mixed with a tropical twist, dominates the hotel’s lobby. It is painted in white and metallic blue and perched among its branches are a handmade leopard, several parrots and a dragonfly.  As do many a designer tree, the Galliano tree has already created some backlash among people who want their Christmas one way, traditional.

Many people can’t stand it if there is ever a Christmas tree that isn’t green, covered in tinsel, and complete with mismatching horrible ornaments.  I for one can’t understand why it is so wrong to have different kinds of trees, such as the one that Galliano designed, when we can see traditional Christmas trees EVERYWHERE.

My Christmas tree is a vintage 1960 aluminum tree (pictured above) that rotates and has a color wheel that shines on it.  We act as our own at home design police as we only allow glass ornaments on the tree.  When you have something as awesome and shinny as an aluminum tree, why go messing it up with non-shinny ornaments.  Also, for you people out there who only like real trees, you are terrible for the environment.  Our vintage tree on the other hand was basically recycled from other people and gets re-used ever year.  Think of that next time you are ready to hold your nose up at a “fake tree”.  Plus, people with fake trees get to be more fashion-y.

In honor of all the fashion designers that are out to steal Christmas from the hands of you traditionalists, I have some images of my favorite “designed trees”.  If you only  like green trees please go outside instead of looking at the following images.

Not surprisingly, Louis Vuitton created a fully-branded Christmas tree, made from metallic gold logos. It pretty much looks like their classic monogram luggage in tree form.

Architect Zaha Hadid’s tree looks very Zaha Hadid-y: a white, curvelinear, space-age sculpture.

The British fashion designer Gareth Pugh designed this Christmas tree for Topshop’s Oxford Circus flagship store in London.

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