![]() ![]() ![]() He and Hoover lived together in Los Angeles, New Orleans and then New York City. Holiday eventually resigned and American Apparel filed for bankruptcy.Īppalled and disillusioned, Holiday scored a six-figure advance to write an exposé of the public relations game, starting him on a new career path of author, journalist and hipster provocateur. He apprenticed with the best-selling author Robert Greene, and before long American Apparel, the mostly defunct retail clothing chain, lured Holiday away to head the company’s public relations department in the middle of a crisis: Its founder, Dov Charney, was accused of sexual assault. “I was the kid who was going places,” he told The New York Times in a 2016 profile. He had turned a summer internship into an offer of full-time employment, and was egged on by Samantha Hoover, a classmate and the woman who would become Holiday’s wife. A California native, he quit the University of California, Riverside, after his sophomore year to take a $30,000-a-year job at the Collective, a Hollywood talent agency. What’s clear is that Holiday is an out-of-the-box thinker who likes to take chances. ![]()
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