PAVE Announces New Partnership with WindowsWear Pro
The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Announces New Partnership with WindowsWear PRO
The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE), a nonprofit corporation that represents over 800 educators and encourages students to study retail design, planning, and visual merchandising, announces a partnership with WindowsWear PRO, the world’s leading resource for fashion windows, visual merchandising, and store environments.
WindowsWear PRO is ideal for fashion design, visual merchandising, marketing educators, and students. The online resource gives PAVE educators and students unique insights and comprehensive reporting on the latest trends in visual merchandising and store environments, including visual design, color, fashion style, and mannequin trends. Through WindowsWear PRO, educators and students can search thousands of high-quality images of window displays to get ideas that can aid them in their field of study.
“I am excited to have WindowsWear as an industry partner; it will provide invaluable project ideas in the classroom and help educators and students stay current with retail trends around the world,” said Dash Nagel, Managing Director of PAVE. “Our industry relies on fresh, young, and experienced talent. Using WindowsWear PRO in the classroom will only help to further fuel their creativity.”
WindowsWear PRO covers the best retail brands and stores in the top fashion capitals of the world, including New York, Paris, Milan, London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and more. Benefits of WindowsWear PRO include inspiration from the most creative content globally, trend reports of the latest and historical window designs, analytics by design, color, style, and mannequin, analyze the world’s fashion windows, trend analysis of the industry’s best styles, fashion forecasting tools and data, and covering over 500+ brands for more jobs and internships.
“This partnership with PAVE will provide educators and students with trend analysis from retail environments in more than eight cities around the world,” said Jon Harari, CEO of WindowsWear. “Not only can PAVE educators and students utilize WindowsWear PRO to gain access to critical educational tools and market intelligence, but they can better understand trends and competition in the fast-paced retail and visual display industry.”
“We are thrilled that PAVE has partnered with us and we believe this is a strong testament to the unique and innovative product and service that WindowsWear PRO offers,” says Mike Niemtzow, President & CFO of WindowsWear.
WindowsWear will make a 5% contribution from all sale proceeds of WindowsWear PRO to PAVE from any new subscriber, and 10% from any college or university that subscribes. WindowsWear will also provide six 1-year subscriptions to WindowsWear PRO in support of PAVE’s Helping Hand Fund, to one school from each continent from around the world.
About WindowsWear
WindowsWear PRO is a subscription service that provides comprehensive trend reporting, analysis and data on the world’s fashion window displays, covering all the windows of the world’s fashion capitals including NYC, Paris, Milan, London, Barcelona, L.A., and Hong Kong. Glamour Brazil says it’s “the Google Earth of store windows.”
WindowsWear.com allows users to digitally shop the latest styles and looks in the windows of the world’s fashion retailers. ELLE says “impressive,” Glamour says “stunning”, Redbook says “awesome”, Women’s Wear Daily says “WindowsWear bridges technology and e-commerce.”
WindowsWear’s Fashion Window Walking Tour is NYC’s premiere fashion tour. It’s an in-depth journey into NYC’s fashion industry, its most famous stores, how they design their windows, and the latest fashions on display. Time Out New York says “WindowsWear took window-shopping to a whole new level.”
About PAVE
The Planning and Visual Education Partnership’s (PAVE) was founded in 1992. Its objective is to stimulate students to study Retail Design & Planning and Visual Merchandising.
Additionally, PAVE aims to advocate interaction support between retail management, visual merchandisers, architects, store planners, and manufacturers and design students. PAVE organizes projects, competitions, seminars, workshops and fundraising activities for scholarships and grants. The organization accomplishes these initiatives through the annual Gala and other activities.