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Article: The sleazy sexual predator behind your teenager's favourite fashion store; It's the High Street rival to Gap, which exploits pictures of young girls in sexual poses for its advertising. But what its customers don't know is the sickening dark side of the man who owns American Apparel.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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Byline: by Barbara Davies
FOR any self-respecting middle-class teenager, it seems that no wardrobe is complete without at least one item of clothing from American Apparel.
Those who have never heard of the store, which churns out the jersey hoodies, T-shirts and leggings so loved by youth, are, according to fashionistas, either too old or too boring.
New branches of the Los Angelesbased firm are springing up on High Streets across Britain as a serious rival to shops such as Gap and Topshop.
But what most parents of teenagers who shop there probably don't know is that American Apparel is attempting to widen its appeal to young ...