American Apparel is known for two things: the antics of its iconoclastic / pornographic founder Dov Charney, and its really excellent cotton t-shirts. The company started making the plain t-shirts for ...

KHQ.COM - An American Apparel factory worker died last Friday at California's West Anaheim Medical Center after being crushed by a circular knitting machine, the OC Register reported. Tuan Phan, a ...

The firing of 1,800 apparently undocumented workers at American Apparel’s Los Angeles garment factory, forced by a federal investigation, is an example of the Obama administration’s new approach to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Los Angeles Apparel was ordered to shut down ...

American Apparel owner Dov Charney isn't afraid to show his political side -- the sign on his downtown Los Angeles factory signals his opinion about the ongoing debate over proposed changes to America ...

American Apparel is looking to move its L.A. headquarters to another state because of the new wage hikes in California, sources told the The New York Post. Currently, the clothes maker has a lease ...

There’s a one-story brick building off of Central Avenue, in the heart of industrial South LA. It has no sign at the entrance; it’s home to Los Angeles Apparel, the new company by former American ...

American Apparel has found a buyer for its Garden Grove manufacturing facility — potentially preserving the jobs of at least a portion of the 330 employees there. The Los Angeles-based fashion brand, ...

Bankrupt retailer American Apparel has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its Garden Grove, CA knitting mill to Compton, CA-based textile company Broncs, Inc. for between $200,000 and $250,000, ...

His rise and fall from American Apparel was documented in a 2025 installment of Netflix's Trainwreck docuseries Netflix's Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel chronicled the fashion empire Dov ...

With edgy marketing, an audacious founder and quality clothing sewn in Los Angeles, American Apparel was held up as a rare success story in U.S. manufacturing at a time when many in the garment ...