Kate Flannery was out of work and out of money when a frizzy-haired babe in hot pants handed her a business card. It featured a girl in a bikini and striped athletic socks. “American Apparel,” it read ...

Netflix last week debuted “Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel,” a documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of the cult clothing brand. Central to American Apparel’s story is founder Dov ...

“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.

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 ...