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's newest documentary shines a light on the alleged toxic work culture at American Apparel. Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel hit the streaming platform today, charting the meteoric rise ...

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 ...

“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.

Best known for their provocative and risque advertising campaigns – and their high-rise and high shine disco pants – American Apparel was the ‘it’ brand of the 2000s indie sleaze era. But behind its ...