From the New York Times: His Way Meets a Highway Called Court, CEO of American Apparel, the “T-shirt and casual wear chain sometimes called an alternative Gap”, is now being charged with sexual harassment.

Among the allegations: using crude language and gestures, conducting job interviews in his underwear, ordering the hiring of women in whom he had a sexual interest and giving one of the plaintiffs a vibrator.

The article gets more interesting,

And in an article in Jane magazine last summer, Mr. Charney was described as engaging in oral sex with a female employee and masturbating in front of the writer several times with the writer’s acquiescence.

Sure, there’s a line between unconventional behavior and sexual misconduct, and if the allegations were true, the CEO should be reprimanded somehow. But I hope these cases will not bring down American Apparel. I’m not a big fan of their products or ads, but I think we need more companies in the States that take a similar approach in running a business. Not the whole sensationalism, soft-core porn thing, but running a business with a unique vision, an attitude, and with nontraditional means.