Mon-Thu, 10am-9pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-10pm; Sun, 11am-8pm
Close By Subway Stops
C, E at Spring St.; 6 at Spring St.; N, R at Prince St.
Repayment Methods
American Express, MasterCard, Visa
Profile
Before getting a common retail presence, American Apparel ended up being a maverick wholesaler in East L.A. off to show that a clothes label manufactured in the U.S., free from sweatshop work, might be both profitable and inexpensive. Even though the business could have outgrown a few of its tough social awareness, its garments continues to be the exact same: solid-color cotton fiber concepts for men and ladies in trend-bending styles. The designs are simple and easy affordable enough to layer, though each period brings a few more sexed-up products in action with existing trends. Improvements like swimwear, infant onesies, and ringer T-shirts for puppies have livened up the collection. No two stores tend to be precisely alike, but all share similar minimalist, Do-it-yourself design of fluorescent lights, flexible shelves, and large voyeuristic pictures, and a social scene of young, hip clients seeking unknown garments they can infuse making use of their own feeling of design. — Katy Ansite
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