The latest announcement from American Apparel would have been a real “yawner” had it not involved two people who are polar opposite people, yet identically iconic in polar opposite ways….
…to confidential arbitration, as American Apparel requires in all such matters. The judge ruled that the documents all American Apparel employees have to sign are ‘unconscionable,’ according to legal filings….
…years alone, based on doubling the sales of apparel in the US, my estimate is that American consumers have discarded 165 million tons of apparel that if had been recycled,…
…jobs is a good thing. Right? The Engine Sputters According to the American Apparel and Footwear Association, the share of domestically produced clothing shrunk to 2.7 percent in 2015, down…
…of Commerce Office of Textiles and Apparel, or OTEXA, recently released detailed apparel import data for the first nine months of 2010, the second year of dramatically relaxed China quotas….
…boomers, casualization of the workforce and competition from fast-fashion and online retailers – the triple crown in negative impact on the women’s apparel market. Thus, the perfect storm: women’s apparel…
…merchandise margins at the corporate level. And it does scale, so that “bigger is cooler.” Sports apparel is a very lucrative subset of the apparel industry; less of a fashion…
…we didn’t have any apparel merchants, so we went out and hired people who knew apparel. We had shoe people trying to do apparel. The expression I use is “we…
…use some of the bricks-and-mortar to open localized distribution centers? Perhaps. Teen Apparel – We know that the 4 or 5 players in this sector, which includes Abercrombie (ANF), American…
…American are launching advertising and social media initiatives to encourage Americans to buy domestically made goods. They’re reacting to a groundswell of sentiment that blames the sluggish job market on…
