We all know the back story behind American Apparel, how the tees are made in sweatshop free conditions by people being paid a fair wage, even getting massages every so often. And that’s great, hurrah for non-sweatshop labour! But the CEO of American Apparel, Dov Charney, is a rather more controversial character, having been the subject of four sexual harassment lawsuits (all dismissed out of court) and numerous other allegations of being a kinda weird guy that spends a lot of his time not wearing trousers. Anyway, just google his name for more salacious stuff that I’m afraid to write here (the opening couples of paragraphs from this Radar article should get you in the right frame of mind, even if it is meant to be a defence of Dov). The video embedded above is a cartoon from Current TV’s Super News, which is all about Dov explaining the world of American Apparel to a t-shirt called Shirty, surely the worst character since Towelie, the talking towel from South Park. Its a pretty funny video, so give it a watch.

Super News American Ap-perv-el

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I know you can’t buy Lenko clothing on the internet (well, there aren’t any sites listed on their stockists pages), and that most of my traffic comes from America, where they have no stockists, but they’ve still got some cool hoodies and sweatshirts that deserve a mention. It’s a hand-drawn, child-like cartoon type style, which looks far better than I’ve described it. And they make hoodies for girls as well as guys.

ILoveLenko.com

*EDIT* Thanks to the folks at Lenko who got in touch to say that you CAN get their stuff online, just head to YTBA to look at the wares of many antipodean designers and artists.

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