Hasta La Creative!

When a founder-CEO is forced out by his own board “for cause,” as American Apparel’s Dov Charney just was, you can expect a media pile-on.

Charney, of course, has been notorious for years. The subject of sexual harassment lawsuits, he was the sort of self-styled Hugh Hefner of the fashion industry and was both loathed and admired. When I tweeted the news of his ouster last night, one of the first responses was “About friggin time.”

I’m sure in the weeks and months to come we’ll be hearing plenty of rumors and possibly even some facts about the particular awfulness that suddenly triggered Charney’s removal, but for now I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I’m going to miss the guy.

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