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For a time, Charney promoted a branding strategy that spotlighted his treatment of workers as a selling point for the company's merchandise, promoting American Apparel's goods as "sweatshop free."[27] In 2008, the company took out a series of political ads featuring the corporate logo that called current immigration laws an "apartheid system."[60] In regards to the company's image overseas, advisor Harry Parnass stated that the brand is about aspiration and that they are "selling the American dream."[61] He dismissed competitors who do the same but refuse to manufacture in America.
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