Conversation with Jon Harari, CEO, WindowsWear

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Written By Joshua T Williams
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Jon shares his insight about the digitization of fashion and the work WindowsWear is doing to aggregate the creativity of store designers, visual merchandisers and packaging specialists. He equates information as power in a digital economy.

Jon Harari is CEO of WindowsWear.com and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Baruch College. Jon also serves as a board member of Berkeley College’s Fashion Advisory Board, Indiana University’s Apparel Merchandising Advisory Board, and several charitable non-profit organizations in New York City. Jon is also a frequent speaker throughout New York City and around the world at university campuses and industry conferences.

Prior to co-founding WindowsWear, Jon established U.S. market opportunities for top internationally-based designers through retail stores, wholesale, events, PR, and online. Prior to working in fashion, Jon was an investment analyst at Aurelius Capital Management, one of the world’s top activist distressed investment hedge funds, and an investment banker at Lehman Brothers.

Learn more: www.linkedin.com/in/jonharari | WindowsWear | Jon Harrari

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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