Before becoming a ubiquitous retail presence, American Apparel was a maverick wholesaler in East L.A. out to prove that a clothing label manufactured in the U.S., free of sweatshop labor ...

American Apparel Inc., founded by Dov Charney in 1997, rose to profitability as a T-shirt maker with an unconventional business model. Countering the almost universal garment-industry practice of ...

The board of Gildan, which owns the American Apparel clothing brand, has been at the centre of a power struggle since announcing last Monday that it was replacing long-time CEO Glenn Chamandy with ...