Carolyn Yim is a creative entrepreneur. She runs a 50-person environmentally sustainable Computer-Aided-Manufacturer and built two product brands, with her hand in everything upstream to downstream: raw material sourcing, design, production, marketing, and retailing.
At her vertically-integrated knitwear business, Ply-Knits, she spins waste yarn into new life. Under the ethos of “Less And More,” she makes a collection of timeless sweaters and products for the home. Through good and well-made design, Ply-Knits hopes to nudge consumer behavior towards greater joy, and thus respect, for clothing.
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
Through her company Ply-Knits, she has consulted for and created project partnerships with:
FarFetch
Net-A-Porter
Labelhood
Lane Crawford
The Paris Review
TMall Alibaba
Uber
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
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 at Columbia University. She is trilingual and based in New York and Hong Kong.