Interesting Info: Dov Charney

American Apparel founder and Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney is one of fashion’s leading innovators.

American Apparel’s Dov Charney attends the LA Fashion Awards at the Orpheum Theatre on October 21, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.

Unless, of course, this all turns out to be paid for by Dov Charney, in which case you can expect a very sternly worded rebuke from us.

We have to say this for the porntastic anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer: he or she is just so god damn aware of the vagaries of pseudoculture that it is impossible not to admire his or her attention-getting sensibility.

Dov Charney is the founder and CEO of American Apparel , a clothing manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer.

Meet Dov Charney, the 37-year-old founder and CEO of American Apparel, the ultra-hip chain that sells clothing, and yes, underwear.

The 37-year-old founder and chief executive of American Apparel, the largest T-shirt manufacturer in America, has been called a brilliant businessman, an amateur pornographer, a Jewish hustler and a man with a social mission.

Charney is engrossed in the everyday operations of American Apparel, habitually visiting retail stores and walking the factory floor to motivate employees and encourage top to bottom communication.

“I think I was born a hustler,” said Mr. Charney, the fast-talking founder of American Apparel, the rapidly expanding youth-oriented T-shirt chain.

The clothes are made not in overseas sweatshops, but in an air-conditioned factory in Los Angeles, where employees earn well above minimum wage and receive full health benefits.

Ernst & Young named Charney Entrepreneur of the Year in 2004 and Apparel Magazine, the Fashion Industry Guild and the Ad Specialty Industry all separately deemed him “Man of the Year”.

He was named Man of the Year by both the Fashion Industry Guild and Apparel Magazine for his design work.

He is admired for single-handedly creating one of America’s most successful fashion retailers, for devising his company’s sexually suggestive approach to advertising and for treating his workers much better than his rivals.

After building a popular wholesale brand, Charney wanted to move American Apparel into the retail market.

It was a long journey for the boy who began smuggling Hanes t-shirts across the Canadian border in 1989, dropped out of college in 1990 and borrowed $10,000 from his father to start an apparel company.

Offering garment workers the highest wages, health care and benefits in the industry, Charney presided over the fastest retail roll out in American history, buoyed by a workforce that produces over 1.4 million garments a week.

Charney has earned recognition in the media for management decisions to pay a fair wage and refusing to outsource manufacturing, while still running a profitable business.

Charney infused progressive politics into his brand, paying his factory workers up to $18 dollars an hour and offering low cost full family health care for employees.

The spoofer knows that the mandate to actually put clothes in his ads is just a necessary evil to Dov; he’d rather just see naked, self-stimulating, shaven women writhing around in space—perhaps accompanied by a cute animal.

He is currently listed as a graduate although in actuality, he’d moved to South Carolina to transition from importing t-shirts to manufacturing them.

Whereas Gap, another American fashion chain, outsources 83% of its production to factories in Asia, all of the 4,000 or so workers involved in American Apparel’s manufacturing process work in the same factory in downtown Los Angeles.

Charney was included in the Los Angeles Times “100 Most Powerful People of Southern California” list and Details Magazine inducted him to their “Power 50″.

Having been at the forefront of major growth and change in the apparel industry for over 18 years, Bailey brings to American Apparel a wealth of experience, having successfully managed manufacturing services and operations for companies such as Fruit of the Loom, Alstyle Apparel, Volunteer Knit Apparel and Beltex Underwear.

Dov Charney, the self-stimulating CEO of American Apparel, is wondering if you’ve seen his dog HedKayce.

Bailey has earned a reputation in the apparel industry as a T-shirt genius for his ability to implement cost-effective programs, and streamlining and organizing production growth.

But some former employees say at American Apparel, sex is more than just a marketing tool.

Mr Appelbaum, who is co-author of a book called “Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry”, wants Mr Charney to submit to an unannounced audit to verify his claims about the treatment of his workers.

With over 9,000 employees across the world, he remains integrally related to the daily direction of the company, designing, photographing and even testing many of the clothes himself.

Dov Charney, American Ampparel CEO : There is no evidence to say that you can’t walk around in your underwear all day anywhere in the United States of America.

The benefits he provides are expensive: subsidising health insurance costs his firm $4m-5m a year; subsidising meals costs another $500,000.