Blow established links with prominent designers such as With a focus on education, the Foundation supports projects that foster creativity and culture, meet social needs and promote wellbeing, and conserve natural resources.

's Social Impact in Sustainability Award. © 2020 The Business of Fashion. Alexander McQueen In fashion, she has built on Swarovski’s legacy of collaborating with the industry’s leading lights and emerging talents, implementing groundbreaking designer support and catwalk initiatives including the Swarovski Collective (founded in 1999) and Runway Rocks (founded in 2003).

From 2012-2020, she led Swarovski’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, ensuring that ethical and environmental standards were embedded in the company’s business practices as it pursued its aim of becoming a world leader in sustainable luxury.

Nadja also studied at Harvard and INSEAD. In 2015, Swarovski was named the UK ambassador of the Women for Women International non-profit, becoming the German ambassador four years later. Nadja Swarovski is the first female member of the Executive Board of Swarovski, the world's leading crystal manufacturer, which was founded in the Austrian alps by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895.

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She is the first female Member of the Executive Board at Swarovski Crystal Business.

In the music industry she has overseen collaborations with costume designers for performers such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez and Madonna.

In 2007, she developed Atelier Swarovski, a cutting-edge jewelry and accessories line featuring collaborations with designers including Christopher Kane, Viktor & Rolf, Jean Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld. Is It Enough?

From Alexander McQueen to Daniel Libeskind, the relationships she has built with figures in the worlds of fashion and jewelry, design and architecture, film and art, have established her as one of the world’s leading creative patrons. Nadja’s career at the family business started in the mid-1990s, when she began showcasing Swarovski's vast product range to the fashion, jewelry, architecture, lighting and home décor industries, encouraging designers to experiment with crystal's creative potential. Since joining her family company in 1995—100 years after her great-great-grandfather, Daniel, established it—she has helped turn it into one of the most forward-thinking and fashionable crystal makers on earth.

Today Swarovski turns over €3.2 billion a year.

Since joining the family business in 1995, Nadja Swarovski has overseen the brand’s successful repositioning within the fashion industry as a leading crystal purveyor for brands such as Maison Martin Margiela, Victor & Rolf and Versace. All rights reserved. In design, Nadja launched Swarovski Crystal Palace in 2002, an initiative that pushed the boundaries of lighting through collaborations with designers in the medium of crystal. Swarovski crystals have been featured in movies including The Young Victoria, Black Swan and Skyfall. The businesswoman also launched the "Atelier Swarovski" ethically sourced, laboratory-created jewellery line in 2007, expanding into a home décor range in 2016. , Philip Treacy and Julien MacDonald, reasserting the historic brand’s prominence within the fashion industry.

Having completed an undergraduate degree in art history from Southern Methodist University, she had initially moved to the city to take a graduate course in fine arts from Sotheby’s, followed by a course at the Gemological Institute of America. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Swarovski, who founded the company in the Austrian alps in 1895. Fashion Institute of Technology Nadja Swarovski joined the Swarovski family firm in 1995, 100 years after it was founded by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895 in Wattens, Austria. Nadja Swarovski, a fairy godmother of sorts in the industry, has such a mind. Nadja Swarovski is the first female member of the Executive Board of Swarovski, the world's leading crystal manufacturer, which was founded in the Austrian alps by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895. The Foundation has supported projects that include the restoration of the San Giorgio statue at the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the new Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning at the Design Museum in London, Women for Women International and Water Aid.

Nadja Swarovski Nadja has been a member of the Executive Board since 2011 and is based in London, UK. Having seen the benefits of connecting customers and brands, Swarovski quickly began establishing links between emerging designers following her move to the company and in 1999 oversaw the appointment of the late fashion stylist Isabella Blow as the company’s fashion consultant. Mary Katrantzou As well as leading the company’s global branding and communications, she has commissioned new installations, artworks and products celebrating crystal that have continually positioned Swarovski at the vanguard of creative and lifestyle trends.