Carolyn Yim is a multi-disciplinary founder, designer, and design historian.
She runs her family’s 50-person manufacturing company, using computation to produce sustainable knitwear. She built two product brands, Ply-Knits and Dreyden, with her hand in everything up to downstream: raw material sourcing, design, production, marketing, branding, and retailing.
At Ply-Knits, she spins waste yarn into new life. Through good, well-made design, Ply-Knits nudges consumer behavior towards greater joy, and thus respect, for the planet. At Dreyden, she encourages a love of reading.
Since then, her work has been covered in:
AnOther Magazine
Business of Fashion
Business Insider
Byrdie
Conde Nast Traveler
Cosmopolitan
Coveteur
DAZED Magazine
ELLE
Freakonomics Radio
Forbes
Goop
New York Magazine
Nylon
Paper Magazine
VOGUE
VOGUE Japan
Wallpaper*
WhoWhatWear
WWD
She has consulted for and created project partnerships with:
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Center of Heritage Arts and Textiles, The Mills, Hong Kong
FarFetch, London
Net-A-Porter, London
Labelhood, Shanghai
Lane Crawford, Hong Kong, Shanghai
The Paris Review, New York
TMall/ Alibaba, Shanghai
Uber, Hong Kong
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, New York
Every winter, Carolyn makes and donates children’s knitwear and blankets for The Love Foundation, a non-profit for children of migrant workers.
Carolyn Yim received her BA in Literature at Columbia University, New York, and MA in Global Chinese Art and Geopolitics at Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is trilingual and based between in New York and Hong Kong.
She is currently a Young Global Leaders fellow at Asia Society NY, and a resident at Interact SF, observing the chaotic traffic at the intersection of East and West, and of Art and Technology.