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KHQ.COM - An American Apparel factory worker died last Friday at California's West Anaheim Medical Center after being crushed by a circular knitting machine, the OC Register reported. Tuan Phan, a ...

Christopher Sturm wasn’t normally approached by women, especially on the street. But as he was walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto one afternoon, a girl suddenly came up to him. She was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Los Angeles Apparel was ordered to shut down ...

The firing of 1,800 apparently undocumented workers at American Apparel’s Los Angeles garment factory, forced by a federal investigation, is an example of the Obama administration’s new approach to ...

REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Peter Arispe from Mexico works as a quality control checker at the American Apparel factory in downtown Los Angeles. American Apparel is cutting hours for its Los Angeles ...

American Apparel is looking to move its L.A. headquarters to another state because of the new wage hikes in California, sources told the The New York Post. Currently, the clothes maker has a lease ...

American Apparel owner Dov Charney isn't afraid to show his political side -- the sign on his downtown Los Angeles factory signals his opinion about the ongoing debate over proposed changes to America ...

American Apparel could lose the one thing that lets us forgive it for usually being so icky. In an L.A. Times article, Dov Charney conceded the company might have to move its manufacturing operations ...

His rise and fall from American Apparel was documented in a 2025 installment of Netflix's Trainwreck docuseries Netflix's Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel chronicled the fashion empire Dov ...