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News | Fashion | Amercian Apparel

Fashion by Sarah (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008

The CEO and founder of American Apparel, Dov Charney, has been hit with a few sexual harassment suit

American Apparel Slapped With another Lawsuit

Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008

Dov Charney You know who probably doesn't need to worry about getting laid off anytime soon? Members of American Apparel's legal team. Because enumerating their lawsuits as of late is not unlike counting the number of Christmas cookies and frosted nuts we ate last week. The latest suit involves American Apparel's ex–chief of European operations Bernhard-Axel Ingo Brake. He alleges he was fired...

Tuesday highlights

LA Biz Observed (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008

... American Apparel update: Holiday, schmoliday - there's always something cooking at the house that Dov Charney built. Latest news is the promotion of Adrian Kowalewski to CFO - on the same day that the stock hit an all-time low. The previous CFO, Ken Cieply, resigned after Charney called him a "complete loser." Last week, the former head of European operations, Bernhard-Axel Ingo Brake,...

American Apparel Names Kowalewski CFO

Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008

American Apparel Inc. has promoted Adrian Kowalewski to executive vice president and chief financial officer.As cfo, he succeeds Ken Cieply, who left the company in May. Cieply resigned after American Apparel’s controversial founder and chief executive officer, Dov Charney, said in a March Wall Street Journal interview that his cfo was a “complete loser” with “no credibility” in the retail apparel...

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Racy Clothier Dons a New Finance Chief

CFO (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008

American Apparel and its controversial CEO, Dov Charney, have selected a new CFO who they hope will prove a winner.If so, it would be a turnabout in the eyes of Charney, who famously flamed the company's former finance chief, Ken Cieply, as a "complete loser" in a Wall Street Journal article last April — shortly before Cieply's departure.Taking over as finance chief now is Adrian Kowaleski,...

Another CFO for American Apparel

Global Financial News (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008

... and Development. He is only 31 years old. The company's last CFO bowed out not long after CEO Dov Charney publicly blasted him as a "complete loser." American Apparel's operational growth has been nothing short of phenomenal, but its stock price has been hurt by a lack of professionalism and faith in managerial competence. It's possible that Mr. Kowalewski will do a great job, but let's...