Registration No.
333-____________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933
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American Apparel,
Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified
in its charter)
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Delaware
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20-3200601
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(State or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation or
organization)
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(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
No.)
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747
Warehouse Street
Los
Angeles, California 90021
(213)
488-0226
(Address, including zip code, and
telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive
offices)
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2007 PERFORMANCE EQUITY
PLAN
(Full title of the
plan)
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Joyce C. Crucillo
General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary
AMERICAN APPAREL,
INC.
747
Warehouse Street
Los
Angeles, California 90021
(213)
488-0226
(Name, address,
including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)
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Copy to:
Jeffrey H. Cohen,
Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
LLP
300 South Grand
Avenue
34th Floor
Los Angeles, California
90071
(213) 687-5000
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION
FEE
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Title of securities to be
registered
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Number of Shares to
be
registered
(1)
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Proposed
maximum
offering price
per share
(2)
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Proposed
maximum
aggregate
offering price
(2)
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Amount of
registration
fee (2)
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Common Stock, $0.0001 par
value
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7,710,000(2)
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$
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7.18(2)
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$
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55,357,800
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$
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2,175.56
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(1)
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Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this
Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of the
Registrant's common stock, $0.0001 par value (the “Common Stock”), that
become issuable under the Registrant's 2007 Performance Equity Plan by
reason of any stock splits, stock dividends, dividend equivalent rights or
similar transactions.
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(2)
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Estimated solely for purposes of
calculating the registration fee, and pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the
Securities Act, as amended, computed based on the average of the high and
low prices of the Common Stock reported on the American Stock Exchange on
April 15, 2008.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION
10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan
Information.
Not filed as part of this Registration
Statement pursuant to the Note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents
containing the information specified in this Item have been or will be sent or
given to each participant as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (“Securities Act”).
Item 2. Registrant
Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
Not filed as part of this Registration
Statement pursuant to the Note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents
containing the information specified in this Item have been or will be sent or
given to each participant as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by
Reference.
The following documents, which have been
previously filed by American Apparel, Inc. (the "Company," "we" or "us")
(Commission File No. 001-32697) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), are incorporated by reference herein and shall be deemed to be
part of this Registration Statement:
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(a)
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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2007, as filed by the Company with the Commission
on March 17, 2008, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, as filed by the
Company with the Commission on March 28,
2008;
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(b)
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Current Report on Form 8-K as
filed by the Company with the Commission on February 7, 2008;
and
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(c)
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The description of the Common
Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed
December 13, 2005, and any amendment or report filed for the purposes of
updating such description.
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All
documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to
this Registration Statement which indicates that all the Common Stock offered
hereby has been sold or which deregisters all Common Stock then remaining unsold
shall be deemed to be automatically incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such
documents; provided, however, that the Company is not incorporating by reference
any information furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any current report on
Form 8-K, including the related exhibits under Item 9.01, unless, and to
the extent, specified in any such current report on Form 8-K. Any statement
contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall only be deemed to be a part of this registration
statement as so modified or superseded.
Item 4. Description of
Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and
Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and
Officers.
Section
102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to
provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation
shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for
liability for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or
its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, for unlawful payments of
dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions, or
for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit.
Paragraph
A of Article Eighth of our certificate of incorporation provides:
“A director of the Corporation shall not
be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages
for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any
breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders,
(ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the GCL, or
(iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit. If the GCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating
or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a
director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
permitted by the GCL, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this
paragraph A by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect
any right or protection of a director of the Corporation with respect to events
occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.”
Our
certificate of incorporation provides that all directors, officers, employees
and agents of the registrant shall be entitled to be indemnified by us to the
fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law.
Section
145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law concerning indemnification of
officers, directors, employees and agents is set forth below.
“Section
145. Indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents;
insurance.
(a) A
corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
(other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the
fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’
fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the
person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be
in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to
any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the
person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding
by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its
equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not
act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in
or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to
any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the
person’s conduct was unlawful.
(b) A
corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or
suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by
reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or
agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation
as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’
fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the
defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith
and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be
made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have
been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that
the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought
shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but
in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery
or such other court shall deem proper.
(c) To
the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has
been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense
of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against
expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such
person in connection therewith.
(d) Any
indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section (unless ordered by
a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific
case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former
director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the
person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a)
and (b) of this section. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a
person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (1) by a
majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or
proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) by a committee of such
directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a
quorum, or (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct,
by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the
stockholders.
(e) Expenses
(including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any
civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may
be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action,
suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such
director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as
authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred
by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid
upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the corporation deems
appropriate.
(f) The
indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to,
the other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be
entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and
as to action in another capacity while holding such office.
(g) A
corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or
is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred
by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as
such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such
person against such liability under this section.
(h) For
purposes of this section, references to “the corporation” shall include, in
addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including
any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which,
if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to
indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person
who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation
as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under
this section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such
person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate
existence had continued.
(i) For
purposes of this section, references to “other enterprises” shall include
employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes
assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references
to “serving at the request of the corporation” shall include any service as a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which imposes duties on,
or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect
to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who
acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the
interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall
be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation” as referred to in this section.
(j) The
indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to,
this section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified,
continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or
agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators
of such a person.
(k) The
Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and
determine all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought
under this section or under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors, or otherwise. The Court of Chancery may summarily
determine a corporation’s obligation to advance expenses (including attorneys’
fees).”
Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to our directors, officers, and controlling persons pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of
the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person in a successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, we
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to the court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication
of such issue.
Paragraph
B of Article Eighth of our certificate of incorporation provides:
“The
Corporation, to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the GCL, as amended
from time to time, shall indemnify all persons whom it may indemnify pursuant
thereto. Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director
in defending any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative action, suit
or proceeding for which such officer or director may be entitled to
indemnification hereunder shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the
final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an
undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if
it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by
the Corporation as authorized hereby.”
The
Company has entered into separate indemnification agreements with its directors
and certain of its officers. The indemnification agreements provide for the
indemnification of and the advancement of expenses to such directors and
officers to the fullest extent (whether partial or complete) permitted by law
and as set forth in the indemnification agreements and for the continued
coverage of such directors and officers under the Corporation’s directors’ and
officers’ liability insurance policies.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration
Claimed.
Not applicable.
The following is a list of exhibits
filed as part of this Registration Statement, which are incorporated
herein.
EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER
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DESCRIPTION
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4.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate
of Incorporation of the Company (included as Exhibit 3.1 of the Current
Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-32697) filed December 18, 2007 and
incorporated by reference herein)
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4.2
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Bylaws of the Company (included as
Exhibit 3.1 of the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-32697) filed
November 9, 2007 and incorporated by reference
herein)
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4.3
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Company’s
2007 Performance Equity Plan (included as Annex C of the Definitive Proxy
Statement (File No. 001-32697), filed November 28, 2007 and incorporated
by reference herein)
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5.1*
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Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher and Flom LLP
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23.1*
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Consent of
Marcum & Kliegman LLP
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23.2
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Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher and Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
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24.1
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Power of Attorney (included in
Signature Page hereto)
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* Filed
herewith.
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby
undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
Statement:
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To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
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(ii)
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To reflect in the prospectus any
facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration
Statement (or in the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which,
individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
information set forth in this Registration
Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar
value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered)
and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in
the effective registration statement;
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To include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such
information in the Registration
Statement.
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Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii)
above do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section
13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining
any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona
fide offering thereof;
and
(3) To remove from registration by means
of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which
remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby
undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act, each filing of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona
fide offering
thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for
liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of
the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company
of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted
by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court
of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it
is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, American Apparel, Inc. certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, State of California, on the 17th day of
April, 2008.
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AMERICAN APPAREL,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Dov
Charney
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Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive
Officer and
President
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each
director and officer whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Dov
Charney as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full powers of
substitution and re-substitution, for him in his name, place and stead, to sign
in any and all capacities any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this registration statement on Form S-8 and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed
below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated:
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Signatures
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Title
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Date
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/s/
Dov
Charney
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Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer, President and Director (Principal Executive
Officer)
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April 17,
2008
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Dov
Charney
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/s/
Ken
Cieply
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Chief Financial Officer
(Principal
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April 17,
2008
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Ken Cieply
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Financial and Accounting
Officer)
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/s/
Robert
Greene
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Robert Greene
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Director
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April 17,
2008
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/s/ Allan
Mayer
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Director
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April
17, 2008
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Allan Mayer
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/s/ Keith
Miller
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Director
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April
17, 2008
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Keith
Miller
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Director
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April
17, 2008
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Mortimer
Singer
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER
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DESCRIPTION
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4.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate
of Incorporation of the Company (included as Exhibit 3.1 of the Current
Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-32697) filed December 18, 2007 and
incorporated by reference herein)
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4.2
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Bylaws of the Company (included as
Exhibit 3.1 of the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-32697) filed
November 9, 2007 and incorporated by reference
herein)
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4.3
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Company’s 2007 Performance Equity
Plan (included as Annex C of the Definitive Proxy Statement (File No.
001-32697), filed November 28, 2007 and incorporated by reference
herein)
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5.1*
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Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and
Flom LLP
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23.1*
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Consent of Marcum &
Kliegman LLP
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23.2
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Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and
Flom LLP (included in
Exhibit 5.1)
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24.1
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Power of Attorney (included in
Signature Page hereto)
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* Filed
herewith.