Children's American Apparel Fashion Brand

American Apparel is the A letter's fullest history - a children's entry that keeps the company's whole rise-and-fall story. The brand's own line is: effortless basics and iconic fashion favorites for women, men and kids - shop t-shirts, hoodies, denim and more. On this page you will find information regarding children's clothing with the American Apparel brand, and the company history attached to it.

American Apparel Inc. is a North American clothing manufacturer, designer, distributor, marketer and former retailer based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Canadian businessman Dov Charney in 1989. Note the five roles - manufacturer, designer, distributor, marketer and former retailer - because the word former carries the story: this company made its own clothing, sold it in its own stores, and then, in the events below, stopped doing both.

January 2017: Factories Shut and 110 Stores Closed

In January 2017, American Apparel laid off 2,400 Southern California workers and started the process of shutting down company factories and closing its 110 stores. However, the brand may live on. Those are the numbers: 2,400 workers, the company factories, 110 stores. For a children's researcher, this is the moment the children's basics stopped being a going retail range and became brand history.

The cause sits in the next fact: the company filed for bankruptcy a second time in November 2016. A second filing, two months before the shutdowns began, is the sequence to hold onto - November 2016, the second bankruptcy; January 2017, the layoffs, the factory shutdown process and the store closures. That sequence explains why a famous basics name is filed here as history rather than as a current store range.

Gildan Activewear Buys the Brand for $88 Million

In January 2017, Gildan Activewear purchased American Apparel's intellectual property and other assets for $88 million in a bankruptcy auction after the company filed for bankruptcy a second time in November 2016. The purchase was of intellectual property and other assets - the brand itself, in other words, rather than the factories and stores that were shutting down in the same month. That is the key distinction: the brand may live on, under new ownership, while the original company does not.

A closed company stays on its profile pages as history - profiles are kept, noted as history, while directory listings are where dead companies are removed. American Apparel's children's entry therefore remains, with its 1989 founding by Dov Charney, its Los Angeles base, its basics for women, men and kids, and its 2016-2017 ending. The brand's official site is carried in References below.

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