American Apparel Dirty Little Secret
American Apparel — I remember when I first heard of American Apparel, about eight years ago. I couldn’t believe how wonderful it sounded: sweatshop-free clothing, made right here in the U.S. of A. The company vocally supportssensible immigration reform and same-sex marriage and uses a “vertically integrated” business model that “minimizes the use of sub-contractors and offshore labor.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? However, like Whole Foods, American Apparel suffers from a problem of a bad-apple founder and CEO — in this case, Dov Charney. More than a dozen female American Apparel employees…read more