Working with Caroline has been a game-changer as a sustainable brand founder. With years of experience in the sustainable fashion space, she is quick to share her vast network and connect you to resources to help grow your business. I appreciate her ability to think outside the box to come up with creative solutions for brands of any size to adopt sustainable practices. I highly recommend working with Caroline!

Shobha Philips
Founder and CEO Proclaim

“Caroline is a pioneer in sustainability. For the last 20 years she has been an advisor and leader to brands globally. Her expertise spans across design, production, and business modeling all focused on creating an ethical and thoughtful product. Caroline has an empathic ability to hone in on the core needs of her clients and blends values, design and strategy.”

Syama Meagher
CEO & Founder at Scaling Retail, 2018 SB100 Top 100 Small Business, 2017 WWD Top 20 Women Leaders in Business

“Caroline’s creative direction, experienced business acumen, and incredible practical experience took Freemans Sporting Club to many new levels: a successful entry into international wholesale partnerships, an expansion and elevation of the line’s design and materials, streamlined workflows company-wide, and innovative collaborations across a range of product categories with brands such as Playboy, Inis Meain, Viberg, Mackintosh etc. She maximized a small staff and tight budget with unbelievable resourcefulness and results. She always works from a team-oriented approach and with tremendous energy and kindness. Caroline is a must have and cannot miss!”

Nikko Misko Lencek Inagaki
Designer Director, Freemans Sporting Club

“I recently finished Caroline's Sustainability Masterclass at CAGM and it exceeded my expectations. As a non fashion professional, not only did I receive tools and a framework to better understand that industry but also engaged in critical thinking that will inform my approach to sustainability wherever I go. The tech worked pretty flawlessly, Caroline is personable and helpful. I also enjoyed the interaction with my classmates and an opportunity to grow my network. After some initial trepidation I also really enjoyed the process of considering my own sustainable apparel design concept and build out the idea over the duration of the course.”

Matthew Miller
Social Impact Intrapreneur

From a design and aesthetic perspective, Caroline is a great designer - yet she brings much more to the relationship as she has built a considerable background in sourcing and production expertise. She is a well-rounded and comprehensive designer, with an expansive base of knowledge. She launched a considerable Knitwear brand, Uluru, which existed through the toughest years of the financial crisis. Caroline built that brand herself, managing all aspects of a brand launch in an agile and industrious manner. She is an extremely passionate designer, with an intense focus on sustainability and production responsibility, but she also understands the need for profitability. She is also a very decent person and a pleasure to work with and therefore has built an extremely valuable network of high-quality industry experts.

Laura Nestor
Founder and CEO coho USA

I was part of Caroline's first cohort in her Sustainable Leadership in Fashion course for CAGM. The group was made up of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and knowledge levels on the subject, but cohesive in our commitment to understanding and learning. Each week covered a new unit of interest, including sourcing and transparency, all important aspects in wrapping one's mind around the complexities of the industry in terms of its social and environmental repercussions. Caroline tied the course together by challenging each member to name their fears and speaking frankly about the kinds of challenges we face in building the careers we want for ourselves. Caroline is kind, curious, and immensely knowledgeable. 5 gold stars!

Janet Gilbert
Sustainable Business Strategist

Prior to attending Caroline’s Master Class, I had experienced an increasing awareness of the impact of the prevailing consumerism culture around the world. Caroline’s course has not only helped me better understand how the linear economy has created the dire environmental and socio economic situation we are in; it has also allowed me realize the huge benefits and opportunities there are in switching to a circular economy. As a fashion professional – and consumer – it is now clear to me how we all can play an important role in changing the course we are in.

Michelle Peglau
Co-Founder El Mercado Peru and Designer

“We could not have started our business, Permanent Collection, if not for Caroline's knowledge, expertise, and deep contacts. She was an incredible asset to our brand in its formative stages, and she'd be an asset to any business looking to get started in fashion or product development.”

Fanny Singer
co-founder Permanent Collection and Author of Always Home: A Daughter’s Recipes and Stories

“When I saw Caroline’s finished designs I felt, “Wow, these are so good — exactly what I needed.” I’m not a designer, but she intuited exactly what I was looking for, and made the idea much better. I think that comes from her dual understanding of fashion design and business — a rare combination that is very much in demand. I gave her the parameters and she came up with innovative, efficient solutions.”

Stephen P. Williams
Blockchain: The Next Everything

I have had the pleasure of working closely with Caroline Priebe and have been consistently impressed by her professionalism, expertise in circular fashion and eco-friendly practices, attention to detail, and ability to think creatively. She is a passionate and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to sustainability, and has been instrumental in driving positive change in the fashion industry. Her deep understanding of circular fashion and eco-friendly practices has enabled her to provide invaluable guidance and advice. Caroline has helped my business reduce our environmental impact while improving our bottom line.
I cannot recommend Caroline Priebe highly enough. She is a true asset to any organization looking to make a positive impact on the environment while achieving sustainable growth.

Sonia Smith-Kang
AfroLatina Founder & Designer of Mixed Up Clothing

We worked with Caroline on developing our company impact reports on our handknitting supply chain. Wanting to refine and deepen our metrics, and so we approached Caroline to guide us through this journey. She was able to not to only examine in detail our work to date, but she also brought a nuanced understanding of our unique supply chain. Through this project, we were able to identify our areas for improvement and Caroline could inform us on some important goal setting which helped inform our sustainability roadmap, as well as understand how to best detail the work we have achieved so far to share with our clients. Highly recommended!

Ellen Saville
Director Of Partnerships and Creative at Harkened and The Endery

“I took Caroline's Sustainability Leadership Masterclass and highly recommend it. Caroline brought forth her deep knowledge of sustainability, which is rooted in decades of experience in design, production, and business modeling in the fashion industry. Her thoughtfully created curriculum focuses on key aspects of creating sustainable products, but also includes a robust foundation as well as an exploration of the global economic and business factors at play. These issues can be complicated, but the class never felt "heavy." Instead, she broke things down in a logical way. She was also approachable and open to input. The last class highlighted personal mission and professional goals and Caroline provided valuable tools for achieving results. Overall, Caroline offers an innovative path forward and supports her students in creating their own equally creative journeys.”

Christine Jasper
Sustainability Consultant, MA International Economics and Social Change

"Caroline is a generous teacher who has gone out of her way to encourage me to recognise and pursue my ambitions for the future. As a sustainability ‘early adopter’ she has an abundance of industry insider knowledge, which she actively shares with others. Her writings and teachings are disrupting the conversation being had on the economics of the fashion industry: its’ impact on the environment and its’ relationship to human labour in a way that is urgently needed. I whole-heartedly recommend Caroline as a mentor to support others seeking to imagine and action change within the fashion industry.”

Olivia Sainsot-Reynolds
Stylist

Caroline's sustainability masterclass was both enjoyable and a very useful tool for me, as a designer. I was able to take the information provided during the class, and make real connections to work that I'm doing in the present, as well as create a roadmap of how I can increase the sustainability of my design work in the future!

Jessica Taft Langdon
Design Director, Footwear