Article: The sleazy sexual predator behind your teenager's new 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 Grafton St customers don't know is the sickening dark side of the man who owns American Apparel.(News)

Byline: by Barbara Davies

FOR ANY self-respecting middle-class teen, it seems that no wardrobe is complete without at least one item of clothing from American Apparel.

Just ask the countless numbers of Irish who - pre-bust anyway - made trips across the pond to the label's numerous Manhattan stores, coming home laden down with bags of signature jersey hoodies, tank tops, dresses, jeans and leggings.

Indeed, those who have never heard of the store are, according to fashionistas, either too old or too boring. Ireland's very first branch has just opened on Dublin's Grafton Street - and expect more at a location near you. If our neighbours are ...

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