The Shirt Hits the Fan
“American Apparel has 249 stores in 20 countries; last year sales were $633 million … Its factory workers make an average of $12 an hour, generous by industry standards.” That’s all good. But then there’s the wild ride of the company’s founder (who was recently stripped of his CEO title), Dov Charney. Here’s BloomberBusinessweek’s Suan Berfield on The Fall of the Sleaze King.