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American Apparel Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    My 4-Year-Old Twin Sons Have Terrible Taste In Music

    So, here's how my sons started listening to lite rock. Not long ago, my wife was out grocery shopping (aka grocery shopping). I was at home taking care of my 4-year-old twin sons (aka playing on the Internet and being really clever on Twitter). They were practicing writing letters and numbers at t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Is 'Indie' the New 'Hipster'?

    Flickr/Gibson Claire McGuire RegesterAccording to my students, looking dreamy in a field is the pinnacle of indie.​ As a young L.A. high school teacher, I share a generational moment with my students but often view them as daft friends or little siblings, distortedly mirroring the pursuits of ... More >>

  • News

    June 16, 2011

    Measuring Terrence Malick

    Flickr/Gibson Claire McGuire RegesterAccording to my students, looking dreamy in a field is the pinnacle of indie.​ As a young L.A. high school teacher, I share a generational moment with my students but often view them as daft friends or little siblings, distortedly mirroring the pursuits of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Top 10 Musicians Who Should Become American Apparel Spokesmodels

    10 Musicians Who Could Save American Apparel (Or Maybe Just Wear It)

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    American Apparel Gives Los Angeles Neighborhoods Their Own Nail Polish Colors: What Shade Is Your Community?

    americanapparel.netThe color of downtown L.A?​So Los Angeles, tell us, what color are you? West Hollywood would be a rainbow of light, of course. And Compton? Red or blue. Beverly Hills? Gold. Maybe platinum. Huntington Park? The "tricolor" array of the Mexican flag. These are just guesses. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    American Apparel Finance Deal Good News For Dov Charney's Hipster Label: Federal Lawsuit Is Not

    Dov Charney's American Apparel gets good financial news.​Updated after the jump with info on the employee involved in the lawsuit. Originally posted at 4:11 p.m. American Apparel is in much better shape financially today after one of its major lenders agreed to revise the terms of its loan to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    American Apparel Looks To Corporate-Turnaround Firm To Change Fortunes

    Dov Charney​Reuters reported this week that financially struggling clothing maker American Apparel was in talks with a restructuring firm in an effort that could save the hipster brand from bankruptcy. Sources told Reuters that American Apparel chief Dov Charney was in talks with the corporat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    New Shareholder Lawsuit Against American Apparel Emerges

    americanapparel.net​In what appears to be about the fourth shareholder lawsuit against the financially embattled clothing maker American Apparel, a New York law firm announced on Tuesday that it was joining the in-court battle against the downtown L.A. company. The filing in the local U.S. Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Dov Charney Blames Illegal-Immigrant Crackdown On American Apparel's Woes

    Dov Charney.​American Apparel chief Dov Charney this week blamed last year's federal crackdown on its undocumented workers for the downtown L.A. clothing maker's current economic woes. Although American Apparel is weighed down by $120 million in debt, a market saturation that includes about 28 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Development Fights Of The Week: Echo Park, Lopez Canyon

    Echo Park​ Sure, when your formerly inexpensive and sleepy neighborhood becomes a hipster haven, you get the obligatory American Apparel and better quality coffee. Plus, beautiful people who take hours trying to make themselves look greasy. But there's downsides: Lots of new development and ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Hipsters, Where Art Thou? American Apparel's Finances Are Hurting

    American Apparel​Los Angeles-based hipster-uniform maker American Apparel announced Wednesday that it had a first-quarter loss of $17.6 million and, as such, it could end up afoul of certain loan terms and ultimately default of some of its debt. The company, run by colorful and controversial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    WATCH: Michel Gondry and Mia Doi Todd Make Human Rubik's Cube

    Mia Doi Todd, all wrapped up in taffeta?​Late last year -- via our Rock Picks, of all sources -- LA Weekly broke the news that Mia Doi Todd and Michel Gondry were working together. As it turned out, the magnificent L.A. cult folkster and the endlessly inspired French director had collaborated ... More >>

  • Music

    January 7, 2010

    Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

    Mia Doi Todd, all wrapped up in taffeta?​Late last year -- via our Rock Picks, of all sources -- LA Weekly broke the news that Mia Doi Todd and Michel Gondry were working together. As it turned out, the magnificent L.A. cult folkster and the endlessly inspired French director had collaborated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    New Year's Eve in LA: Top 5 Songs for Shooting Your Gun in the Air at Midnight*

    Top 5 Songs for Shooting Your Gun in the Air at Midnight

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Suck It Brooklyn: All Your Bands Are Safe, Boring, and Sound the Same, says LA

    New York magazine"These B'klyn Bands Could Be Your Life, (If your life was LAME, that is!)," says a way-cooler Los Angeles​Breaking news! Stereogum reports that New York magazine has just named Brooklyn "the music capital" of America (or perhaps the world?--unclear). Grizzly Bear, MGMT, and Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    American Apparel Puts Father Yod On A T-Shirt, Anthology Provides The Soundtrack

    Celebrated Hollywood Hills cult head and far-out psych-rock band leader Father Yod may have died in an unfortunate hang-gliding accident in Hawaii in 1975 (we realize the inherent oddness of that sentence to any not familiar with the Ya Ho Wha 13 story), but his image is being resurrected thanks to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    L.A.'s Rag Trade Faces Grim Outlook

    Today's L.A. Times Business section has an alarming story about the downturn in the city's garment industry. The plight of L.A.'s rag trade seldom gets the spotlight that, say, Hollywood's shifting fortunes receive, and even though their industry provides a powerful economic generator for the county ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    American Apparel T-shirts Under Attack

    Perhaps it's not as iconic a still life as the cop-shattered storefront window with the big Huey Newton poster in it. But the image of an American Apparel shop's plate glass, smashed because it displayed a pro-gay marriage T-shirt, should give us  pause. The incident happened this week at a sub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    American Apparel: Made in East L.A.?

    L.A. Garment and Citizen's Dot Dot Dish column (spotted by the Eastsider L.A.) recently reported on rumors that American Apparel may move its operations from the gritty industrialscape just east of downtown and into the old Sears store on Olympic and Soto. The Sears locale makes sense, given AA's r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    We Have a Budget L.A.'s City Council unanimously passed a $7.01 billion budget that compromises over the issue of freezing new police hires. L.A. Daily NewsMurdered Cop's Mom Shot A stray bullet fired during a West L.A. street altercation Friday entered a nearby home and struck the mother of Ricardo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    The Dov Boat: Woody Allen & American Apparel Settle for $5M

    David Shankbone/WikepediaLos Angeles-based garment manufacturer American Apparel has made an out-of-court settlement with Woody Allen, the Associated Press reports. Allen, the idiosyncratic film maker of Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had sued the company, owned b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Woody Allen's Ticking Bomb Scenario

    Just when you thought the war of legal words between filmmaker Woody Allen and American Apparel's Dov Charney couldn't get any more bitter, it appears that AA plans to add even more vitriolic verbiage to the mix. Specifically, from Mia Farrow, whom the company's attorneys plan to call to the witness ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 30, 2009

    Special Drinko por Cinco Mariachi Cheat-Sheet Edition

    Just when you thought the war of legal words between filmmaker Woody Allen and American Apparel's Dov Charney couldn't get any more bitter, it appears that AA plans to add even more vitriolic verbiage to the mix. Specifically, from Mia Farrow, whom the company's attorneys plan to call to the witness ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Tech's Popular Girl — Shira Lazar

    She's the human manifestation of the convergence of tech and entertainment — the stepsister of American Apparel's Dov Charney, Shira causes a commotion just by showing up

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Daniel Baldwin The Gray Kid Dov Charney's Silver Lake Mansion = Video Thrills

    Still from The Gray Kid's "Happy Feet video" It doesn't take Daniel Baldwin long to tell a joke that punchlines with philosophical rhetoric on the necessities of an on-set blow-job. That he plays the priest in the day's music video only makes it funnier. That the day's setting is the American Appar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    American Apparel Responds to SEC Story

    A spokesman for American Apparel took issue with yesterday's New York Post article that claimed AA was being investigated by the Securities Exchange Commission. "American Apparel is a good L.A. company," Ryan Holiday wrote in an email to the L.A. Weekly. "It's nowhere near bankruptcy, it would be he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    SEC Investigating American Apparel?

    UPDATE: See American Apparel's response to story.A New York Post item claims that the Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing a trove of emails that were pilfered December 24 when American Apparel's computers were accessed by an unidentified hacker. One of the messages is purportedly from AA ... More >>

  • Music

    January 1, 2009

    Barack and Bondage, Crafting and Camel Toes: Nightranger's Annual L.A. Style Survey

    From Katy Perry and Shepard Fairey to handmade frocks and stretchy skinnies

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    WORN OUT: Knocking Us Out With Those American Thighs

    Though they're mostly associated with the trendy '80s workout wear resurgence of a couple years ago, the return of the legging –or rather legging(s)- looks to be more than a passing fad. Now that the temps are dipping in LA, we're seeing the booty-hugging Lycra-blend confections everywhere, and af ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Boutique (on the Super Ghetto Cheap): Fashion Bank

    Though they're mostly associated with the trendy '80s workout wear resurgence of a couple years ago, the return of the legging –or rather legging(s)- looks to be more than a passing fad. Now that the temps are dipping in LA, we're seeing the booty-hugging Lycra-blend confections everywhere, and af ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Steals and Deals on Robertson Boulevard

    Saving cash amid the flash

  • Columns

    August 14, 2008

    Signs of the Dov: The American Apparel Flea Market and the Search for the Next Top Billboard Model

    Shoppers wait five hours just to browse for T-shirts

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    The Many Moods of Rock the Bells

    Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    OUTFIT OF THE WEEK

    As you can probably imagine, we see a lot of "hot" and "not" fashion out there while patrolling LA's clubs and hubs every week, but sometimes it's all about context... The funky lame ensemble and multi- colored hair here wouldn't have caught our eye at Cinespace Tuesday or Club Moscow or any night a ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 15, 2008

    Jennifer Phillips

    Siren call

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

    Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

    Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a flurry of t-shirts, tube socks, hoodies, tees, halter dresses and (the highly coveted) metallic disco dancewear....lines, lines and then more lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    Tee-For-All

    Oh boy oh boy! 1 Million (or as Dr. Evil would say, ONNE MILLLION) garments are supposed to be available for the pickin' this Sunday at the American Apparel Factory flea market downtown. Tanks, shorts, and leggings for holiday gifts? Maybe. Not sure if these are seconds or what, but for a buck ... More >>

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    No-Escape Best Looting On the Eve of Destruction

    Crossbows, medical pot and American Apparel

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    In The Hood

    If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That”- the ironic, catchy yet cheesy sing-a-long pop–rock anthem of choice for deejays right now, and a fave with today’s dance floor fiends who p ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 24, 2007

    Dancing in Tropical Snow

    Ashley Huizenga: She comes in colors everywhere

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2007

    Elf-ing cute!

    Elf cafe, located at 2315 Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park on the same block as American Apparel and next to the abandoned movie theater, has no phone or website, but since this teeny vegetarian bistro is owned by the members of the band Viva K., they do have a myspace page. Elf, just so you know, is 18 y ... More >>

  • LA Life

    December 28, 2006

    An Ugly Truth

    The year in style? Help stop global leg warmers

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Getting Crotchety

    Best places to see exploited youth

  • Columns

    September 28, 2006

    The Hills Have Eyes

    Best places to see exploited youth

  • LA Life

    August 31, 2006

    Summer? Summm . . . Errr?

    Best places to see exploited youth

  • LA Life

    July 13, 2006

    Look Hot, Stay Cool

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

  • Music

    June 29, 2006

    Pollo Libre

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

  • Music

    May 4, 2006

    Fry Me to the Moon

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2005

    Best Basics for Babes

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

  • Music

    September 8, 2005

    Sucker

    Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

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