Friday 27 August 2010

American Apparel article

Interesting article in the Guardian about the rise and fall of American Apparel. Reading the first sentance of this article I was wondering what the hell my colleague had given me...

It wasn't having oral sex with an employee in front of a female journalist that now threatens to undo Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. Nor was it simulating oral sex with another female member of staff whom he had ordered to pretend to masturbate in front of him. The 41-year-old's professional and personal reputation isn't even on the line because at least three female employees have filed sexual harassment lawsuits against him (all the cases were settled before reaching trial); nor because he walks through his factory in his underpants and conducts meetings wearing just a thong – or a sock. The sock is not, one should add, worn on his foot.


Read the whole article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/25/rise-fall-american-apparel