Showing posts with label Charney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charney. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Get ready, New York will soon have more commercial space for rent - American Apparel is going down, finally.

Founder Dov Charney's support for an illegal immigrant amnesty was followed by a raid on his LA factory
photo: THE INDEPENDENT
With $91 million in debt, it's unlikely that the favorite underwear supplier to the City's hipsters will recover.

As founder and CEO of American Apparel, Dov Charney says  "Hipsters are from a certain time period. The stereotype of a hipster is not something people aspire to anymore. Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster." 


Too bad Charney couldn't figure that one out $91 million ago.


Now if we can only get rid of Starbucks.