When I started college in the early 2010s, one of my first friends was a well-dressed Hawaiian girl with Tumblr taste and a wardrobe full of disco pants that appeared frighteningly fashionable and ...

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 ...

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.