BIO

NoéMie Schwaller is a Zurich-based journalist and editor covering fashion, the fashion industry, architecture, interiors and travel.

Most recently, she was Head of Lifestyle at Ringier Medien Schweiz, responsible for STYLE magazine and the lifestyle pages of Schweizer Illustrierte. There she launched new print and online formats and expanded STYLE from three to four issues a year. Before that, she was co-editor-in-chief of Traumhaus (Galledia / BL Verlag), a Swiss magazine on architecture and living. She was also deputy editor-in-chief of the trade magazine Textilrevue (NZZ Fachmedien, later CH Media), reporting on fashion retail and the textile industry.

In London she founded DASH, an internationally distributed fashion magazine, and ran it as editor-in-chief for seven years. The magazine won several awards, including the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises. As a freelancer she writes for titles including SonntagsZeitung and Hochparterre. NoéMie is a board member of the Swiss Textile Collection, where she is expanding its communication and textile-history city tours.

She trained as a designer at Zurich University of the Arts and holds an MA in Fashion Journalism from London College of Fashion. She has served on juries at Graduate Fashion Week London, Czech Grand Design, and ModeSuisse, and has taught at Istituto Marangoni and the Swiss Textile College. Earlier in her career she developed live-communication concepts at Rufener Events (MCH Global) and Standing Ovation. She works in German, French, and English.

Outside work, she trains visually impaired runners for fun runs and half marathons.