WeWork Co-Founder Buys a Hip Clothing Brand and Starts a Senior Center. Miguel McKelvey, who created WeWork with Adam Neumann, is now the owner of the apparel maker American Giant.

We make our products in the USA because keeping things close means we can better control our supply chain—and in turn, our quality, service, and footprint. When you buy American Giant, you create jobs for people in factory towns and cities across the country.

Since a 2018 New York Times story first chronicled American Giant CEO Bayard Winthrop's odyssey to bring back flannel manufacturing to the US, a lot of things have changed.

History. American Giant was founded in February 2012 by Bayard Winthrop, former head of Chrome Industries, to address what he saw as a lack of affordably priced, high-quality, American-made products.