If it's Friday it's a field trip
and today was a really GREAT one to the American Apparel factory in LA.
Two giant buildings and a dozen floors of manufacturing.
I loaded my my gang of fearless fashion students into a 12 passenger Saddleback athletic van and drove everyone to LA.
Our tour was given by the hilarious, informative American Apparel employee extraordinaire;
Jonny Syzmanski ( in the lavender sweater )
American Apparel is the Charlie Chocolate factory for fashion.
Hundreds of employees designing, promoting, manufacturing hundreds of items.
Truly a vast complicated vertical business.
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| Plastic injection machine making plastic sandals. |
And now American Apparel is selling shoes so they are also now manufacturing shoes.
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| Shoes assembled from raw goods |
This was taken at the end of a loooong day.
And OMG: thought my sweater was black stripe but, it's navy blue strip!!!
Good thing mixing colors is popular right now :)
At the end of the tour we were given a 35% discount at the factory " Flea Market ".
I got all this ( mostly for my girlies ) for $109.
Everyone agreed it was a great day.
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