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http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article4165459.ece
dov charney, founder of american apparel is being sued for the fifth time for sexual harassment.
His latest accuser is Jeneleen Floyd, who worked in the product-placement department at AA’s headquarters in Los Angeles. She claims that, one afternoon, he stormed into her office in a blind fury and demanded she pretend to masturbate for him. She demurred, so another (male) colleague obliged and, for good measure, Charney joined in, too.
If true, this is quite vanilla by Charney’s standards. At his office and factory, the geekily handsome Canadian is known to attend business meetings in his underwear - once, memorably, in a thong - and regularly refers to female employees as “sluts” and “whores”. (“Some of us love sluts,” he said by way of defence in a recent deposition.)
More jaw-droppingly, in the course of an interview with a female reporter from an American women’s fashion magazine, Charney wiggled in his desk chair, loosened his Pierre Cardin belt and inquired, “Can I?” Without pausing for an answer, he hoiked his trousers down and proceeded to, well, you know, all the while chatting away about AA’s business forecast for the coming year. The reporter dished in her piece, claiming Charney had pleasured himself in front of her “eight or so times” and that she also witnessed him request oral sex from an employee, who obliged.
charney is a fucking pig, and i don't get the american apparel craze. i refuse to support this asshole, who's advertisements degrade women and look like soft core porn. while i support sweat shop free clothes, i cannot reconcile giving money to a man who lacks the ethics he claims he has. do i buy clothes made in a sweat shop, or clothes made by workers who are sexually harassed. although, there is often no difference.
so, now that there is a new american apparel open on the east side of milwaukee, i would like you to think before you hand your money over to a corporation run by this chauvinist, ignorant pig. or maybe you just like those deep v-necks so much it doesn't matter.
dov charney, founder of american apparel is being sued for the fifth time for sexual harassment.
His latest accuser is Jeneleen Floyd, who worked in the product-placement department at AA’s headquarters in Los Angeles. She claims that, one afternoon, he stormed into her office in a blind fury and demanded she pretend to masturbate for him. She demurred, so another (male) colleague obliged and, for good measure, Charney joined in, too.
If true, this is quite vanilla by Charney’s standards. At his office and factory, the geekily handsome Canadian is known to attend business meetings in his underwear - once, memorably, in a thong - and regularly refers to female employees as “sluts” and “whores”. (“Some of us love sluts,” he said by way of defence in a recent deposition.)
More jaw-droppingly, in the course of an interview with a female reporter from an American women’s fashion magazine, Charney wiggled in his desk chair, loosened his Pierre Cardin belt and inquired, “Can I?” Without pausing for an answer, he hoiked his trousers down and proceeded to, well, you know, all the while chatting away about AA’s business forecast for the coming year. The reporter dished in her piece, claiming Charney had pleasured himself in front of her “eight or so times” and that she also witnessed him request oral sex from an employee, who obliged.
charney is a fucking pig, and i don't get the american apparel craze. i refuse to support this asshole, who's advertisements degrade women and look like soft core porn. while i support sweat shop free clothes, i cannot reconcile giving money to a man who lacks the ethics he claims he has. do i buy clothes made in a sweat shop, or clothes made by workers who are sexually harassed. although, there is often no difference.
so, now that there is a new american apparel open on the east side of milwaukee, i would like you to think before you hand your money over to a corporation run by this chauvinist, ignorant pig. or maybe you just like those deep v-necks so much it doesn't matter.