By Elisabetta Povoledo

The last time the Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti tackled New York City, he created the violent mean streets of a mid-19th-century Manhattan slum, a bleak, ramshackle neighborhood where blood and mud caked the ground, for Martin Scorsese's 2002 opus, "Gangs of New York."

This time around, Mr. Ferretti has taken a slightly more commercial approach and has lent his design vision to the holiday windows of Tod's, the leather-goods emporium on Madison Avenue whose majority owner is the Italian industrialist Diego Della Valle, chairman and chief executive of Tod's S.p.A. Their coproduction will be unveiled to the public this Thursday at a celebratory party.

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