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American Apparel Founder Dov Charney Has a New T-shirt Business He Says Is Already Worth $30 million
Dov Charney, the founder of American Apparel who was forced out of the company in a 2014 boardroom coup, has a new gig: He has started a T-shirt company with some of his old colleagues from American Apparel and is already shipping merchandise. Charney believes he can hit revenue of $30 million with a year, he told Business Insider.
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Dov Charney Is Being Accused of Skimping on a Former Employee’s Severance Package
A woman whom American Apparel says was given a severance package by former CEO Dov Charney in exchange for her not making misconduct claims against him is suing the company for non-payment of benefits under her severance agreement.
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Dov Charney’s Comeback Plot for American Apparel Reaches New Heights
Nobody puts Dov Charney in a corner. The unrelenting American Apparelfounder and former chief executive officer has been desperately cooking up various plans to get back into the company since his ouster late last year. Equally, does all the sturm und drang over the struggling retailer ultimately boil down to egos or idealism about what American Apparel symbolizes for U.S. manufacturing?
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How Dov Charney Made & Ruined The Cult Of American Apparel
By Alden Wicker Stephanie Padilha’s is the quintessential American Apparel story: a young woman specially picked by AA’s former CEO Dov Charney for greatness — and hipness. “I grew up as a girl in Brazil hearing from my mom about the quality of the cotton T-shirts and the denim from America,” says the 28-year-old Padilha. She had a fashion blog, where she would pose in dreamy, ‘20s-era outfits with starry crowns and vintage makeup — until she discovered American Apparel. “[During that week],
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Getting Fired for Gaining Weight Isn’t Even the Worst Way to Lose Your Job
Or so she alleges in a lawsuit filed in Detroit’s federal court. Elizabeth DeLorean started working at the clothing and accessories company in 2002 as a 20-something who would dine on health-conscious microwaveable meals during her lunch break. “Then it would get a little more intense, things like, at a performance review ‘whatever happened to the girl who would bring in her Lean Cuisine for lunch every day?’” Coach insists the 35-year-old’s poor performance was the only factor involved in her
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Watch American Apparel Workers Violently Destroy a Piñata of New CEO
In addition to its financial woes, AA has been facing ongoing unrest between those employees who continue to support ousted founder Dov Charney, and those who do not. Last week, a sizable group of Charney supporters, wearing shirts reading “I <3 DOV” and “Save our company” gathered outside AA’s Los Angeles headquarters and partook in a demonstration against against CEO Paula Schneider—which included their angrily dismembering a giant piñata created in Schneider’s likeness. “In Mexico, the piña
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Does Anyone Care About American Apparel Anymore?
There’s a new American Apparel story every day: Last week, the Seattle Times wrote, “American Apparel’s new CEO brings order to company chaos.” The New York Post noticed that Versace had knocked off an American Apparel t-shirt. On Wednesday, Jezebel asked, “What the hell is going on with American Apparel?” Later that same day, The New York Times wrote, “American Apparel to Lay Off 180 Workers.” A few months after the Dov Charney shakedown, the brand is gunning for a makeover. No more nipples, se
