Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images A sign hangs above an American Apparel store in the Wicker Park neighborhood September 4, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.

American Apparel's alleged toxic working environment takes the spotlight in Netflix's latest documentary. Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel landed on the streaming platform today, charting the ...

Christopher Sturm wasn’t normally approached by women, especially on the street. But as he was walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto one afternoon, a girl suddenly came up to him. She was ...

The Gist: Early testimonials in Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel paint broad strokes of the titular clothing brand and its more sinister underbelly. As one interviewee puts it, “It was a ...

American Apparel’s billboards were hard to miss when traversing Los Angeles in the 2000s. The ubiquitous ads for the L.A.-based clothing company featured gritty, amateurish photos of seemingly ...

If at one point it felt as if there was an American Apparel store on every corner, that was certainly the idea. The brand, founded in 1989 by Dov Charney, exploded in popularity in the mid-'00s.

“It was a fashion cult. I loved every second of it — until I didn’t," one employee says in the trailer for 'Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel' Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

Netflix's 'Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel' traces the brand's rise and fall. 'InStyle' takes a look back at the clothes that defined indie sleaze. When I started college in the early 2010s, ...