Automated window displays at NYC Aritzia stores appear to do Trump dance
Animatronic puffer coats in the windows of the trendy women’s clothing store Aritzia in Manhattan appear to be doing the viral “Trump Dance” — likely unbeknownst to the “woke’’ chain’s higher-ups.The automated advertising displays’ shimmying — seemingly a la the president-elect’s wildly popular moves on the campaign trail — won positive reviews Sunday from passers-by.“It’s an attention-getter,” said a tourist named Chris who was outside the brand’s Fifth Avenue shop with his family from West Palm Beach, Fla.Chris’s wife, Kam, said, “And if it is [the Trump dance], it’s OK.“You can like it or hate it,” she said.Another bystander said, “There’s a new president, so [the display] isn’t bad to us.“Maybe it is for some people.”It’s unlikely that the Vancouver, Canada-based brand — which donated $100,000 to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP in 2020 — is aware that the display harkens to Trump.A source with knowledge of the company’s displays told The Post the chain considers the animatronic gestures “definitely just generic dance moves” that are “not intended to mimic anything or anyone.”But some of the dozens of passers-by who stopped by the Fifth Avenue store to take photos with the displays weren’t convinced.“I definitely see it,’’ said Ray, a Los Angeles tourist, when a Post reporter pointed out the similarities between the Trump dance and the mannequins.Caroline, a Baltimore, Md., resident, said, “That is how he dances,” before demonstrating the prez-elect’s iconic to-and-fro wiggle.“It looks like it.But I guess a lot of people dance like that,” she added.
“Trump is just the one that’s in front of the cameras all the time.”The larger-than-life mannequins were set up at Aritzia’s newest New York locations: in SoHo on Nov.26 and Fifth Avenue — down the road from Trump Tower — on Dec.
16, a store employee told The Post.Animatronics striking similar moves at Aritzia st...