Baz Luhrmann is to turn Central Park Zoo into a "fairytale wonderland".
The 'Great Gatsby' director and his costume designer wife Catherine Martin are creating a 'Baz Dazzled Holiday' display for Barneys New York over the festive season and will kick off their spectacular with an A-list party at the zoo on November 13, the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column reports.
It was announced earlier last month that the couple had teamed with the department store's creative director Dennis Freedman to create fairytale-themed artwork for the iconic shop, including "fantastical characters, woodland creatures, ice skaters, snow owls, and candy canes" to emphasise their motto; 'A life lived in fear is a life half lived'.
In addition to the party and the window displays at the Madison Avenue flagship store, Baz and Catherine's artwork will also feature on limited-edition shopping bags, gift cards and in-store displays.
They have also collaborated on a number of gift items for the retailer, including ornaments, tabletop accessories, throws, toys and children's costumes and 25 per cent of sales from the Baz Dazzled products will be donated to Room to Read, a global organisation focused on literacy and gender equality in education.
The couple said: "From the earliest days of our love affair with the city of New York, we have always marveled at the way Barneys blends retail, theatre, art and narrative with irreverence and wit while nevertheless remaining accessible to its audience.
"We embrace the opportunity of reveling in the holiday spirit by collaborating with Barneys, taking traditional holiday iconography and turning it on its head. This collaboration is, for us, ultimately a celebratory opportunity to deepen our relationship with our adopted city of New York."
Last year, Barneys teamed up with Jay Z for their holiday displays, and worked with Disney in 2012.

Ozzy Osbourne felt "excited" being in New York during 9/11.
The 65-year-old singer was in the Big Apple on September 11, 2001, during a series of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center - which killed almost 3,000 people - but he insists the aftermath of the atrocity was his "kind of craziness" because he found it fascinating that nobody was around the day afterwards.
He told Shortlist magazine: "I wasn't scared, I was excited! It was my kind of craziness, y'know.
"The day after that happened, there was f***ing nobody in New York. I remember standing on the steps of the hotel, and - you know when you see an old cowboy film and that tumbleweed rolls past on the ground? There were newspapers just floating around on the streets. It was so f***ing weird."
While the Black Sabbath frontman wasn't frightened by the incident, he admits being anxious over the current unrest in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and is expecting a lot of the human race to be wiped out with a nuclear weapon sooner or later.
He explained: "I hope this ISIS lot don't get going. I've come to the conclusion that it's in mankind to try to kill each other for one thing or another.
"I think sooner or later one of these crazy f***ers is going to get a nuclear weapon or some f***ing thing, and f**k a lot of people up. That's in our nature."
The rocker - who is married to former 'X Factor' judge Sharon Osbourne - also revealed he once drank three bottles of wine before attending a Correspondents' Dinner at the White House, where he was a guest of honour, and thought the then-president George W. Bush was a "****".
He said: "He was a ****. I was f***ing faced at that dinner. I'd had three bottles of wine before I went in there. Sharon was going f***ing nuts at me.
"No one would come near me because I was off me f***ing nuts.
"I've met him, I've met Bill Clinton, I've met loads of them but they're very strange people.
"Hilary Clinton was wonderful, a very nice lady. George Bush, I never quite got his deal."

Niall Horan regrets leaving school without any qualifications.
The 21-year-old singer quit education aged 16 when he shot to fame on 'The X Factor' with One Direction, but the star admits he would've like to have had more of a childhood by remaining in education and finishing his exams.
Writing in the boy band's latest autobiography, 'Who We Are', he penned: "My childhood was cut short by 'The X Factor' because One Direction took off and I never really got the chance to finish school or do my exams or anything like that.
"After the first audition, I packed up everything in my life in a bag.
"I didn't realise at the time that, when I was stuffing clothes into the little suitcase, that was pretty much me leaving home for good."
While Niall admits he enjoyed his school days, he wasn't always a model pupil as he previously revealed he was suspended from strict Catholic boys school Coláiste ­Mhuire in Mullingar County, Ireland.
He said: "I maybe stole something when I was at school, like stuff off a friend.
"I was not a bad boy but I got suspended for two days for general messing about. I talked too much which probably got me in trouble."

Keira Knightley felt like she was at school while filming 'The Imitation Game'.
The 29-year-old actress admitted she and her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch - who plays the enigma code-breaking genius Alan Turing in the WW2 thriller - struggled to understand any of the maths that they were taught on set.
In spite of attempts by an engineer to explain the concepts of coding to the brunette beauty, Keira struggled to pay attention to the complex theories and admitted the whole process brought back terrible memories of her school days.
She said at a press conference for the movie at the Corinthia Hotel in London yesterday (08.10.14): " We were really bad at all of it. And I didn't understand any of the maths.
"It's that feeling that I haven't had since school being in maths, you just sort of feel like you've died. He was such a nice man, I should have been paying attention but I didn't."
The 'Atonement' actress - who celebrated the film's debut alongside Benedict, 38 and their co-star, 'Downton Abbey' actor, Allen Leech, at the Odeon cinema in London's Leicester Square during the BFI film festival last night - also admitted she didn't have much luck solving word puzzles on set, insisting it took the cast five days to complete a simple crossword.
She said: "One day we thought, Oh yeah, we should really be doing crosswords,' so we brought the quick crossword, there were five of us and it took us five days."

An all-female 'Ghostbusters' film has been confirmed by Paul Feig.
A third movie in the comedy franchise is being made and this time a host of "hilarious women" will be the protagonists, four-time Emmy nominee Feig has confirmed.
The movie connoisseur is most well known for his work on the hit 2011 comedy 'Bridesmaids' and has now been revealed as the filmmaker who will helm the franchise's return.
He made the revelation on Twitter on Wednesday (08.10.14), writing: "It's official. I'm making a new Ghostbusters & writing it with @katiedippold & yes, it will star hilarious women. That's who I'm gonna call. (sic)"
The filmmaker's message has thrilled fans of the cult movies, especially with the revelation that Katie Dippold - one of the writers behind NBC comedy 'Parks & Recreation' - is joining the 52 year old once again, following the success of 'The Heat' which they previously worked on together.
Although the cast for the three-quel has not yet been revealed, it has been hinted that Melissa McCarthy may be lined up for a role following her previous involvement with the writing duo.
And original Ghostbuster Bill Murray has also announced his backing for the 44-year-old star, making comments in Toronto last month about who he would like to see in the movie.
He told the Toronto Star newspaper: "Melissa would be a spectacular Ghostbuster. And Kristen Wiig is so funny. God, she's funny. I like this girl Linda Cardellini a lot. And Emma Stone is funny. There are some funny girls out there."

Casey Affleck is working on a new film about the Boston Marathon bombing.
The 'Gone Baby Gone' actor is set to produce and star in the new film about the event in 2013.
Variety reports that the movie - entitled 'Boston Strong' - will be based on the book by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, which has subsequently been adapted into a script by Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy, who wrote 'The Fighter'.
The plot of the new film focuses on the manhunt sparked by the 2013 bombing, which attracted worldwide media attention, while the movie itself will mark Affleck's first full producer credit since 'I'm Still Here', starring Joaquin Phoenix.
Affleck - the younger brother of Oscar-winning writer Ben, 42 - is currently filming 'The Finest Hours', which is based on another book written by Sherman.
However, he will next be seen on screen in Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar'.
In a recent interview, Nolan said his new movie is like "a mirror image" of 'Inception'.
Nolan, 44, explained the film was inspired by sci-fi movies from his childhood.
Speaking to Empire magazine, the director said: "It expands out in the way Inception contracts inwards, it's a very classically constructed movie, but the freshness of the narrative elements really enhance it.
"I liken it to the blockbusters I grew up with as a kid, family films in the best sense: edgy, incisive, challenging."

David Cronenberg considers all of his films to be comedies.
The Canadian filmmaker is widely recognised as a pioneer within the horror movie genre, but Cronenberg says his movies shouldn't be taken too seriously.
He explained to Vulture that although his films don't follow the "traditional definition of a comedy", the 71-year-old considers there to be a "humorous aspect" to all of them.
Cronenberg said: "At Cannes, someone said, 'Have you ever considered making a comedy?'
"And I said, 'I've done nothing but'. Not maybe the traditional definition of a comedy, where it ends with a feel-good kind of thing, but for me, there is an observed and humorous aspect to the human condition and, of course, exploring the human condition is really what art is about.
"And I can't imagine not having humour be part of it. I just can't imagine it."
Some of the filmmaker's best-known projects include 'Scanners' and 'Videodrome', as well as more recent films like 'Cosmopolis'.
His latest film, 'Maps to the Stars', boasts an impressive cast that includes the likes of Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson.
'Maps to the Stars' is in cinemas now.

Tracey Emin will design the 2015 Brit Award statuette.
The controversial artist will follow in the footsteps of Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and last year's designer Philip Treacy in creating the iconic prize, which will be handed out at the annual ceremony next February.
And the 51-year-old artist was "thrilled" to asked to design the award.
She said: "I was thrilled to be asked to rework the Brits trophy. It's so nice as a visual artist to have an involvement with the creative side of the music industry and it's such a sweet celebration of the amazing talent we have in Britain today."
Brits organisers were keen to select a designer who represented "British creativity" and were "delighted" when Tracey agreed to their request.
Brits Chairman Max Lousada said: "Tracey is one of the UK's most prominent fine artists and we are delighted that she has agreed to re-work the 2015 BRITs trophy. Having her on board means that we enter a fifth year of iconic and uniquely designed BRIT statues, and with British creativity very much at the heart of the event, it's fitting that Tracey takes the baton and continues this tradition."

Take That will premiere their new single tomorrow (10.10.14).
The 'Patience' hitmakers' first track since Jason Orange's recent departure can be heard on UK radio at 7.30am and the remaining members of the group - Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald - hope it will be a hit with fans.
A posting on the group's twitter page read: "We can officially confirm that our new single is premiering tomorrow morning across UK radio! Tune in from 7:30am."
Gary then wrote on his own twitter page: "hope u like it (sic)"
And in response to a fan who said she was excited about hearing the song, he replied: "So r we (sic)"
Howard doesn't think fans will be disappointed by the track, whose name has not yet been announced.
He tweeted: "we can't wait to hear on the radio too!... tis a great song (sic)"
The song marks the group's first new material since 2010 and Howard admitted it has been a long time coming.
He wrote: "About bloody time hey (sic)"
Take That fans were left stunned last month when Jason announced his departure.
He said in a statement: "I want to start by saying how proud I am of what we have achieved together over the years.
"However, at a band meeting last week I confirmed to Mark, Gary and Howard that I do not wish to commit to recording and promoting a new album...
"At the start of this year and with my full knowledge and blessing the guys began writing new material.
"There have been no fallings out, only a decision on my part that I no longer wish to do this."

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is to receive an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron.
The leader of the Conservative Party has revealed his intention to say sorry to the monarch after saying she had "purred" when he told her the result of the Scottish referendum on independence.
Speaking at the time of the incident, Mr Cameron said: "Look, I'm very embarassed by this. I am extremely sorry about it. It was a private conversation that I shouldn't have had and won't have again.
"My office has already been in touch with the Palace to make that clear and I will do so as well."
The Prime Minister was overheard making the comments to Michael Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York, at a United Nations summit.
It has been confirmed he will tonight (09.10.14) apologise during his regular audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Typically, Mr Cameron, 48, and the Queen, 88, meet every Wednesday, but Party Conference season has meant their planed meetings have been delayed over the last few weeks.
Throughout the referendum debate, the Palace maintained that the Queen was completely impartial on the matter.

Amanda Bynes was apprehended for shoplifting yesterday (08.10.14).
The troubled actress - who has sparked fresh concerns for her welfare following a spate of recent erratic behaviour - left Barneys New York wearing a hat she hadn't paid for and was stopped by security guards, who let her go after she agreed not to return to the department store.
A NYPD spokesperson told People: "Police responded to a petit larceny.
"Amanda Bynes placed a hat on her head and left the store. Security brought her back in and called the police, but the security decided to release her ... She was gone when the NYPD arrived on the scene."
Police confirmed no charges were filed but the actress had agreed to sign a no-trespass affidavit, banning her from the store.
The 28-year-old actress insisted the situation was a misunderstanding and she had been trying to escape people trying to take her picture and had the permission of one security guard to leave the store but there was miscommunication with another member of staff.
She said: "I was walking out of the store to get my handbag out of the car.
"I had been harassed by a man - a man and this woman were basically trying to take my picture inside the store, and so I asked them to stop taking it, but they wouldn't ... They were like paparazzi but undercover.
"I walked out of the store, and the sensor went off. I didn't realise I was wearing my cap. And the cap - I was purchasing it, and I was actually still shopping."
Amanda - who was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) last month - also confirmed she can no longer return to the upmarket store.
She said: "I basically just had to leave. They said, 'Please, just don't shop at Barneys anymore.' But oh well. It's fine."

Robert De Niro dedicated his Entertainment Icon award to Robin Williams on Tuesday (07.10.14).
The 'Raging Bull' actor was honoured by the Friars Club at the members society's annual gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York and paid tribute to his late friend - who committed suicide in August - for his "love, humour and compassion".
He said: "Last year I was happy to speak at the gala honoring Don Rickles, happy because before I got the call, I couldn't remember if Don was still alive.
"As you approach the stage in life I like to call the Rickles phase, four things happen. You get older, you get shorter, you get Jewish, and then you become a Friar...
"If you know me, you know how much I like to laugh, and no one made me laugh like Robin. No one could fake that amount of love and humour and compassion. Robin my dear friend I dedicate this award to you."
A host of stars paid tribute to the veteran actor at the event, including Sharon Stone, Edward Norton, David O. Russell, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese.
Joel McHale mocked the screen legend for his prolific career, saying: "There was an awkward moment when he was handed a menu earlier and he signed on to star in it."
Ricky Gervais sent a video message in which he recalled how the 71-year-old actor had called him after he "p***ed everyone off" with his first stint hosting the Golden Globe awards in 2010.
He said: "I p***ed everyone off in Hollywood and you were laughing all the way through.
According to the comic, De Niro told him: "You were great. They were jokes. F**k them. They were jokes."
When the 'Office' star admitted he didn't know if he'd be invited to return to host the awards, the 'Taxi Driver' asked: "You want me to have a word?"
However, Ricky admitted: "I thought you meant you were gonna have 'em whacked. I said, 'No but thanks.' "
Larry King hosted the event, which also honoured Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, and musical performers included Aretha Franklin, Sting and Stevie Wonder.