American Apparel: Fashionably Wrong? Written By: Nina Smith 2007-09-11 18:50:12 “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
Kristina Dell at Time noted the Real-World Problems of Second Life when shoppers at American Apparel were gunned down by a group called the Second Life Liberation Army last year. The act, albeit it virtual, probably had something to do with dissatisfaction about the site’s increasing commercialization, but Meghan Daum might beg to differ.
Meghan Daum writes a fantastic column at the Los Angeles Times and recently opined on the ick factor of American Apparel. She writes:
I’ve been looking at American Apparel’s advertisements for years now, and I’m still not sure what I think about them. My feelings are another story. I loathe them -- and not just because the super-hip, low-fi, can’t-be-bothered-to-look-professional-because-that’s-so-uncool aesthetic is emblematic of everything that’s irritating about a certain segment of contemporary urban youth culture. I loathe them because I believe they’re meant to evoke pornography, sometimes even child pornography. The fact that a) this cannot be proved, and b) you can’t say it without sounding like a prudish old biddy, drives me crazy.
Blue Jeans Part I: The True Cost of Blue Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-08-12 17:38:37 Photo: imelda, Creative Commons, Flickr
So you think you really need that new pair of designer blue jeans, huh?
Blue Jeans Part II: The True Cost of Blue Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-08-13 18:51:07
The denim for blue jeans comes from the cotton plant, a shrubby tropical plant treated as an annual in more temperate regions whose modern history, at least, is fraught with tragedy.
After a public accusation by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) that McDonald's (MCD) paid unlawfully low wages to employees, the international fast food institution offered an olive branch and agreed to work on establishing a union in Guangdong Province.
