Retail Environments - November/December 2012

Gearing Up for Gala
Sold-out event will benefit students while celebrating design

The 16th annual PAVE Gala, PAVE’s main fundraising event of the year, will take place the first night of Retail Design Collective. Returning to the stunning Cipriani Wall Street venue in New York, this celebratory industry networking event will bring industry luminaries together for an extended networking reception, dinner, awards, and after-party. Now in its 16th year, the Gala is a major fundraiser for PAVE, which awarded over $65,000 in grants and awards to students and schools in 2011—and will award over $77,000 in 2012.

Last year’s event, with record-breaking
attendance and sponsorships, drew over
600 influential industry professionals
from companies including Saks Fifth
Avenue, Godiva Chocolatier, Macy’s,
Bloomingdale’s, Target, Chute Gerdeman
Retail, d-ash design, Callison, and TPG
Architecture, to name a few. Eight stu-
dents with winning projects in the Student
Design Competition and four educators
attended through seats donated by indus-
try companies. As of press time, this year’s
Gala was sold out, with a waiting list.

SEE FUTURE TALENT TODAY PAVE’s mission is to support the future of retail design, so talented students from a variety of schools play a role in the event each year. Students this year were challenged to design black-and-white mannequin displays dressed in eveningwear, daywear, and accessory designs inspired by

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
CIPRIANI WALL STREET
6:30-10:00 p.m.
After-Party | 10:30-11: 30 p.m.

Kara Laricks, NBC’s first Fashion Star. Each design will be reconstructed from an item already in existence. Attendees will be able to see both the final design and the original, unreconstructed item.

Now in its 16th year, the Gala is a major fundraiser for PAVE, which awarded over $65,000 in grants and awards to students and schools in 2011—and will award over $77,000 in 2012.

HIGHLIGHTS

• See the best in student design as winners of PAVE’s 18th annual Student Design Competition are recognized for their visual merchandising and pop-up shop design creations for the Bonobos brand, sponsored and presented by B+N Industries.