"I think this is a first for the parade, " says Macy's lead designer, John Piper, standing in a roomful of brightly colored clay prototypes at Macy's 75, 000-square-foot parade studio in New Jersey.
The late John Bissell had been a buyer for Macy's when he came to India in 1958 on a Ford Foundation grant to advise a government-run handicrafts institution.