Posts Tagged ‘American Apparel’
What Do Nudists Wear?
What do nudists wear? If this online nudist apparel store is any indication—more than you’d imagine. From what I can tell, nudist attire is clothing which serves a decorative—as opposed to a shielding—function, and generally operates with a clear disregard of genital exposure. It’s also a really good resource for any woman who would like to see a soaring eagle beaded atop her boobs.
The “beaded collar,” (prices vary). Available in the classic “circle/rope” pattern, as well as a few flashier models.
For the nudist biker:
American Apparel “Legalize Gay” Vandalism Inspires Support, Security
On Wednesday, American Apparel’s Silver Spring store received the chain’s latest threatening phone call in response to its anti-Prop-8 “Legalize Gay” T-shirts.
“Five minutes ago, I just answered the phone and got a death threat from a man with a bad phone connection,” the female Silver Spring employee wrote to superiors in an e-mail. The caller asked the employee why the pro-gay shirts were still on display, then threatened to take action. He said, “If I didn’t take it down, bad things can happen to me, resulting in drastic measures,” she wrote.
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American Apparel Employees Receive Death Threats
Last night, WJLA* reported on the recent recent vandalism linked to American Apparel’s “Legalize Gay” displays. Yesterday, the Silver Spring location received another threat over the phone in regards to the anti-Prop-8 shirts, which an anonymous employee recounts for WJLA: “Why is that T-shirt still in the window? You should take it down or something will happen to you.”
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American Apparel Windows Will Stay Gay
This week, hooligans targeted a couple of local American Apparel stores over the stores’ prominent “Legalize Gay” T-Shirt displays. On Monday, a window at the Silver Spring location was shattered. Yesterday, an anonymous caller informed the Georgetown location that as long as “Legalize Gay” is on display, the storefronts can expect more broken glass.
American Apparel isn’t scared.
Gay T-Shirts In Windows A Problem For American Apparel
A local vandal may have found an antidote for the “Legalize Gay” T-shirts that have popped up in American Apparel window displays around the D.C. area—eliminate the window.
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American Apparel Is Gay
American Apparel CEO Dov Charney (above) and his army of android hipster superheroes have started a new initiative to coincide with their weed-smoking “Legalize LA” movement: “Legalize GAY.” Someone called Jonny Makeup writes in:
So sorry it took almost a week to post but i have been taking care of you know who…my Daddy!!! [Does anyone know what this means? -ed.] Anyways last week, me and my girl Lil’ Lisa Kim did something soooooo political. We went to protest against the whole Prop 8 mess! Daddy even let us make a new American Apparel Ad Campaign “Legalize Gay; Repeal Prop 8 Now”, to coincide with our “Legalize LA; Immigration Reform Now” campaign. We brought a gay army, gurrrrl!!!!! Onch Movement (from that TV Show that I didn’t get cast for), Tamoko, Gaybe, Gary and YES THAT IS HER IN THE PIC….BOBBY TRENDY!!!! I never thought I would say this but I never felt so GAY!!!! I can’t wait to be Happily Ever After cause someday Prop 8 will be repealed and someday my Prince will come!!!
Check out Makeup’s Legalize GAY t-shirts here.
Photo by dovcharney.
Dov Charney Still Crazy, Sexy, Uncool
Conde Nast Portfolio gives notorious sex addict and workers’ rights advocate American Apparel CEO Dov Charney the profile treatment in its November issue. My favorite anecdote:
This sexual aura has cut both ways for American Apparel. Charney has made his name in part through controversy. He once famously masturbated in front of a female journalist. Charney says the reporter, for the now-defunct Jane, took the masturbation out of context. “I was a younger man,” he says, wearily. “The lines were blurred between paramour and reporter.” The reporter has said that her tape recorder or notebook was in full view at all times and that the relationship was professional.
There are seven pages of this.
Photo by, uhhh, dovcharney.
Girls v. Butt
I find American Apparel to be generally obnoxious on the sex front. I think they have obnoxiously sexual advertising, an obnoxiously sexual CEO, and obnoxiously sexual socks. Often, I silently curse American Apparel’s sexy ways, only to look down and find my very own body obnoxiously swathed in an entire outfit from American Apparel. Curse you, you sweatshop-free, vertically integrated, irresistibly sexy clothing company.
One upside of AA’s sex-obsessed culture is its generous offering of sexy niche magazines. Alongside their sexy fanny packs and sexier dog t-shirts, American Apparel stocks reads like Butt: The Homosexual Quarterly and Girls Like Us: A Lesbian Quarterly. But(t) at around $10 each, these quarterlies don’t come cheap—twenty bucks? That’ll almost buy you a leg of a Nylon Tricot High-Waisted Zipper Pant! If you can only have one, check out The Sexist’s roundup of their fall issues. (Note: The AA Butt is from Autumn 2008; the GLU, strangely, is from 2007).
