Comments on: What would you do if you had $10,000,000?

By: Jewlicious » How much is Woody Allen’s face worth?

Jewlicious » How much is Woody Allen’s face worth? — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:42:23 +0000

[...] dear froylein wrote about Woody Allen’s $10 million suit against American Apparel for using his image on billboards in Hollywood and New York without his permission. On the eve of [...]

By: froylein

froylein — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:03:03 +0000

“hi, you are looking nice today, so wanna spend some time alone”

That doesn’t constitute as classy either; nothing to brag about.

By: cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:59:08 +0000

froylein hehehehe, funny

actually plenty of girls came on to me, i doubt saying stuff like “hi, you are looking nice today, so wanna spend some time alone”

By: froylein

froylein — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:47:08 +0000

It’s pity, not the hots… plain pity.

By: cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:29:35 +0000

froylein i dont blame you for liking me, lots of girls have the hots for me

By: froylein

froylein — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:11:52 +0000

Right above the video, there were two paragraphs that are gone now, but I had a link to another post in those paragraphs and the link still exists in the comments: jewlicious.com...

By: themiddle

themiddle — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:31:49 +0000

What missing paragraphs? Did you write something that’s changed?

By: froylein

froylein — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:18:01 +0000

And there still remains the mystery of the missing paragraphs…

By: themiddle

themiddle — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:07:22 +0000

I don’t know Dov, have never received anything from him, write on Jewlicious for free so I’m not beholden to anybody and while I admit that he seems eccentric from news reports, I admire what he’s doing.

We’ve debated this here before at length, but I find the attacks on him to be ridiculous. What, he’s employing thousands in Los Angeles at good wages with benefits in an industry that is almost entirely overseas? Yeah, what an asshole he must be. What, he’s opened stores all across America and other countries that pay leases at a time when lots of chains are going belly up and he employs workers in those stores at reasonable wages with benefits? Shoot him! Oh, I see, he takes photos of young women and puts them in ads without photoshopping the hell out of them and without using 6’2″ tall bulimia victims to market his clothes? Throw the bum out on his ass!

I mean, really, take it out on Hugh Hefner or somebody who really put nudity and sex in the American imagination. Or take it out on virtually every other apparel manufacturer in the US because they’re overseas using the cheapest labor they can find in the most favorable anti-worker climates they can find, unlike American Apparel. Take it out on Walmart and Target for selling those clothes. Take it out on Vogue for popularizing the notion of what is beautiful in a woman as opposed to Dov Charney’s ads.

The one thing I’ll agree with is that the dude needs to lose the beard.

By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:30:37 +0000

Oh yeah i forgot this

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By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:26:25 +0000

Ok Ck lets not fight.I will not say anything bad about one of your sponsors.Wink Wink

By: ck

ck — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:10 +0000

J.Miller: We’ve written about American Apparel ad nauseum. To liken Charney to mass murderers is uhm… quite inaccurate. No drug addict could run a company the size of American Apparel. We’ve already documented the conditions of his workers and his factory and the benefits they enjoy which, along with more money, are on par with, if not better than any union shop in the US. And AA has already moved to China. Last year they opened two stores selling American made apparel to the Chinese. I find that pretty damned amusing – like seeing a Ford in Japan!

By: froylein

froylein — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:04:56 +0000

I’ll definitely ask CK about those two paragraphs.

By: froylein

froylein — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:04:08 +0000

I don’t know Dov Charney in person, so I cannot comment on his personality, but from what I’ve read his attitude towards his workers is progressive. A lot of high-end companies have already outsourced their workforce; if you pay attention to what the labels say, it’s often “designed in the US”.
Even a lot of the customized European stuff is made in the far-East. They take your measurements and have the suits tailored e.g. in Malaysia. I once spoke with someone who does the handbag purchases for renowned Parisian department stores, and he told me that those handbags that cost up to tens of thousands on average cost 3 Euros in design, material, production, shipping and labour per piece and are also manufactured in Asia.
There are very few brands that still produce in Europe, e.g. Trigema, Birkenstock – even Barbour imports and just claims their wax cotton jackets are still made in Britain.

By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:52:21 +0000

As for the last two paragraphs ask CK to check out the lost and found section. :}

By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:50:55 +0000

I grew up in a working class family and have always been pro union.The man is a drug addict and is a cross between C.Manson and Ted Bundy.The only reason his company makes money is because of the slave labor.Plus who says Mr Charney does not impose(16h-workdays, no weekends off, no holidays, no healthcare, employment often means ownership as one’s work is a way of paying back debts, child labour, working with toxic materials etc.)When he cannot make a profit this company will go to china. As for fashion the clothes i wear are made by pro union american companys or the higher end bespoke stuff from europe.

By: froylein

froylein — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:28:18 +0000

Does anybody know where the two paragraphs that came after the quoted text went?

By: froylein

froylein — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:20:16 +0000

Middle, as long as CTC stays on topic, we could consider it some kind of repentance phase. Maybe if you called me “my German butterfly” more often, I’d not be so partial to giving CTC more chances than he deserves.

J.Miller, if you familarize yourself with measures taken in developing policies, you’ll see that Dov’s position is shared by many do-goodniks. It’s all good and nice to run projects through funding, but the only thing that is good in the long run is sustainability. Economic liberalism is a strong ideal in the US. Philanthropic ideas are great, but the balance needs to be right, otherwise projects remain just that, namely projects, which per their nature are short-lived. And no, I don’t wear AA, but that is mostly because I’ve got a different, distinctively European style of clothing. If I were into the designs AA produces and I had to choose between that brand or one that makes use of real sweatshops (16h-workdays, no weekends off, no holidays, no healthcare, employment often means ownership as one’s work is a way of paying back debts, child labour, working with toxic materials etc.), I’d know what to choose.

By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:40:40 +0000

“sarcastic” Those cookies for typos are adding up

By: J.Miller

J.Miller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:39:09 +0000

Dov Charney is CEO and owner of American Apparel

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If you were being scarastic and you know who he is sorry.